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:
“And here the precious dust is layd;
Whose purely temper’d Clay was made
So fine, that it the guest betray’d.
Else the soule grew so fast within,
It broke the outward shell of sinne,
And so was hatch’d a Cherubin.”
—Thomas Carew (1589–1639)