Keenland Race Track and a Driving Tour
While
on our family road trip we stopped in Lexington to visit Keenland
Race Track. The whole place was beautiful!
We arrived early enough to watch morning workouts which my 12 year old niece
thoroughly enjoyed. We were able to go all the way down to the track and have
a front row view of the trainers working the horses. 
After
watching the workouts we went into the gift shop where we got a map to do
a walking tour of the grounds, you can also print this tour from the Keenland
website. On this tour we were able to see the paddock, clubhouse and grandstand...we
were even able to go right down to the stables. I think this was one of the
neatest parts of our tour as we got to see where the horses are housed as
well as watch the ones that were finished with their workout being cooled
down, washed and shoed.
After our tour of Keenland we got back in our car and started a driving tour
we'd found online, on the Lexington Visitor Bureau website, that is based
on the movie Dreamer. We drove past so many beautiful farms, the
stretches of white and black fence running along the road and the foals playing
in the fields with their mothers watching was so pretty.
Don't
miss the drive by "The Castle" on Versailles Road! I had read about this ahead
of time and was still amazed by seeing an actual castle in the middle of Kentucky.
This
was such a great trip for our family! I really look forward to planning another
one to this area because there is just so much more to see. I hope you have
as much fun as we did!