Ashland (Henry Clay Estate)
Ashland is the name of the plantation of the 19th-century Kentucky statesman Henry Clay, located in Lexington, Kentucky, in the central Bluegrass region of the state. It is a registered National Historic Landmark.
The Ashland Stakes, a Thoroughbred horse race at Keeneland Race Course that has ran annually since the race course first opened in 1936, was named for the historically important estate.
Read more about Ashland (Henry Clay Estate): History of The Estate, The Mansion, The Farm
Famous quotes containing the word clay:
“You may melt your metals and cast them into the most beautiful moulds you can; they will never excite me like the forms which this molten earth flows out into. And not only it, but the institutions upon it are plastic like clay in the hands of the potter.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)