In no particular order I have compiled the Top Ten Best Tourist locations in Kentucky. Some of them are best visited in the Spring and Summer. So break out those calendars!
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I just read very interesting editorial on AMnews.com concerning Casino Gambling and the effect on Kentucky.
 The specific argument outlined, is how organizations such as KEEP are trying to get slots and other gambling onto Racetracks but no where else in the state.
Two interesting bits are located below.

One organization leading this effort calls itself the Kentucky Equine Education Project. It proclaims casino gambling limited to racetracks to be the savior of the threatened horse industry and at the same time a source of new revenue for state and local government. Among its members is former governor Brereton Jones, a Woodford County horseman.
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The first clubhouse at Churchill Downs

From the official Churchill Downs website

Horse racing in Kentucky is rich in history, dating back to 1789 when the first race course was laid out in Lexington. However, it was almost 100 years later, in 1875, that Churchill Downs officially opened and began its tradition as “Home of the Kentucky Derby.”

In 1787, The Commons, a park-like block near Lexington’s Race Street was used by horsemen for racing. By 1789, complaints by “safety minded” citizens led to the formal development of a race meet at The Commons. The men who organized this race meet, including Kentucky Statesman Henry Clay, also formed the Commonwealth’s first Jockey Club. The organization later was named the Kentucky Jockey Club in 1809.

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