Calk Receipt

ID: 1396
This file appears in: First Race Course
Calk Receipt

The "Kentucky Gazette" reported on early horse racing and horse sales in the state. A receipt from 1808 made to William Calk for a subscription to the newspaper is shown here. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: First Race Course

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #6 in Lexington notes the location of the first straight quarter-mile horse racing course in Kentucky, which was established years before statehood. Kentucky was the first state settled west of the Appalachian Mountains. Many…