While in Kentucky, we've been staying at the campground at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. The Horse Park is a huge complex which hosts various equestrian and other special events throughout the year. It will be the site of the World Horse Show in 2010. It seems like there are at least as many huge horse trailers here in the campground section of the park as there are RVs.
Lexington is serious horse country and everywhere you look there are rolling green pastures and split rail fences. And of course, horses, horses, horses. We like the Lexington area a lot. It's developed enough to have all the shopping, entertainment, services, etc. one needs for everyday living, but just minutes outside of the more urban areas and you are in "the country".
Today we drove about 60 miles west to Louisville. As home to Churchill Downs, we expected it to be much the same as Lexington. But it is not. Louisville has the look and feel of a densely populated big city.
We took a tour of Churchill Downs (home of the Kentucky Derby) which we really enjoyed. The tour included visiting the paddock area, the race track, the grandstand area and the trainers' stables behind the racecourse. There is no live racing going on this time of year though. I was kind of bummed about that. I would have loved to see the horses run. But according to Kentucky state law, only one track at a time can be holding races and it's not Churchill Downs' turn. They have race "meets" two times a year, from mid-April through mid-July and then late-October through late-November.
Today was our final day in Kentucky. We move on to Nashville, TN tomorrow.
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