Stud Advertisement

ID: 1398

This file appears in: First Race Course

This advertisement offered the horse Cup-Bearer for stud in 1811 in the "Kentucky Gazette." Photograph courtesy of Tim Talbott.

This file appears in: First Race Course

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…