![]() ![]() ![]() No announcer “calls” the races in the afternoon or warns bettors about the min utes remaining until post time. is free to mingle with famous trainers, own ers, jockeys and horses dur ing the morning workouts. The proletariat is surpris ingly welcome at Keeneland. Or to visit Keeneland, the quiet little tract where Derby hopefuls will compete in the Blue Grass Stakes Thursday, where the current three week meeting has major league talent and small‐town serenity? Isn't it much more pleasant to drive down the back roads, where magnolias and dog woods are in bloom, where beautiful thoroughbreds gam bol or tend their newborn foals? And it cer tainly seems like a heavy is sue to ponder at such a lovely time of year. The bull dozer, which some consider the state mascot, is chewing into the land.Īs the people move out to ward the horses, there is an occasional rumor that the thoroughbred industry could be pushed to Florida or Cali fornia. Lexington jumped in popu lation from 132,000 to 174,000 in the nineteen‐sixties, and subdivisions are now prod ding their graceless fingers into the lush green waistcoat of Fayette County. ![]() Civilization is looming down hard, as close as the whining jets on final approach to Blue Grass Field, or the highway that sliced through Calumet Farm a decade ago. But such is the proximity of mass mankind to the treasures of the horse farms. It would be vastly impolite and even dangerous to actually touch a fiery and valuable stallion. LEXINGTON, Ky., April 16 -There are moments of great peace and beauty in the Blue grass Country when one can stroll near shaded pastures, close enough to reach out and touch a possible Ken tucky Derby Winner. ![]()
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