Trotting Stable

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This file appears in: Douglas Park Racetrack

This Currier and Ives image shows the interior of a trotting stable in the late 1860s. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

This file appears in: Douglas Park Racetrack

Douglas Park Racetrack

By Tim Talbott

Historical Marker #2336 in Louisville notes the location of Douglas Park Racetrack, which operated from 1895 to 1958. Horse racing flourished as a sport in late nineteenth-century America. Nowhere was that more apparent than in Kentucky. …