Sam Hildreth

1866 - 1929

Admonished by his father that one could not settle down if he wanted to be a racing man, Sam Hildreth wrote years later of such family sojourns as himself and all nine brothers and sisters being taken by ...

Robert A. Alexander

1819 - 1867

Robert A. Alexander established the 2,000-acre Woodburn Stud in Woodford County, in part with the inheritance left by an uncle in Scotland. By creating a commercial breeding operation, Alexander introduced a degree of professionalist to breeding horses that ...

Cleburne's Division

Breckinridge's Corps.

[Text from the first tablet]:

Cleburne's Division - Breckinridge's Corps.

Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne.

Nov. 25, 1863.

Govan's Brigade, - Col. Daniel C. Govan.

Smith's Brigade, - Brig. Gen. James A. Smith.

Polk's Brigade, - Brig. Gen. Lucius E. Polk.

Lowrey's Brigade, - Brig. Gen. ...

William S. Farish

1939 -

To the general public, the identity of William S. Farish is likely created by his term as the United States Ambassador to England, his business association and friendships with both Presidents Bush, and his friendship with Queen Elizabeth II, ...

William T. Young

1918 - 2004

One of Lexington's most distinguished native citizens also emerged as one of America's top Thoroughbred breeders and owners. W. T. Young developed the stately Overbrook Farm, stocked it with high quality bloodstock and began breeding, racing, selling and ...

John W. Galbreath

1897 - 1988

The far-reaching enterprises of John W. Galbreath were sometimes reflected in the names of his horses. Epsom Derby winner Roberto was named for the great baseball player Roberto Clemente, whose team, the Pittsburgh Pirates, was then owned by ...

The Original Chimney of the Bennett House

The original Bennett House, which burned on October 12, 1921, faced east on the old Hillsboro Road; the road ran in 1865 as now, south of the building. The structure consisted of one room downstairs and a small room over ...

Meeting of the Generals

On April 17, 1865, Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman and Gen. Joseph Eggleston Johnston met on this section of the Raleigh to Hillsboro Road at the home of James and Nancy Bennett to negotiate a peace settlement to end the ...

Col. Phil T. Chinn

1874 - 1962

Col. Phil T. Chinn's place in the history of Thoroughbred racing and breeding would be secure on the facts alone, for he bred, trained, raced, bought, and sold a number of important horses. It was as a character ...

Allen Paulson

1922 - 2000

Long before he owned the international champion Cigar, Allen Paulson had established an American success story honored by the Horatio Alger Association and the Wright Brothers Trophy. Born in Clinton, Iowa, into a family that was to be ...