Keeneland, Ky.: The world’s real horse capital
Lexington might as well declare the Keeneland Race Course to be a separate city.
East Coast sportswriters do it whenever an important horse, like Big Brown, comes out of a Keeneland thoroughbred auction.
Newhouse News Service, for example, says one of Big Brown’s owners, Paul Pompa Jr., spotted the colt “at a Keeneland, Ky., auction last spring and bought it for $190,000.”
Can’t you hear the interview?
Sportswriter: “Where did you get the horse?”
Pompa: “Keeneland.”
Sportswriter: “Where’s Keeneland?”
Pompa: “Kentucky.”
And Keeneland, Ky., is born — or maybe reproduced.
The Kentucky County Maps atlas lists a Keeneland in Jefferson County.
Could that be where Big Brown came from?
The odds are 100 to 1 against it.
