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:
“Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it meets the mane of the grass; the diluted reflection of the sky together with the fleeting sight of the reeds; the Negresses fill their dripping gourds and their red clay containers; the song of the washerwomen; the gorged fields the tall crops ripening.”
—Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)