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Future Racing Hall of Famers Round Table and Ralph Neves parade to post before winning the 1957 Blue Grass by 6 lengths over One-Eyed King. Round Table earned a Horse of the Year title in 1958 and was leading sire in North America in 1972.

This photograph captures a crowd of spectators at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky in 1949.

Racegoers at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky in 1951.

This photograph captures Sherluck, with Braulio Baeza up, winning the 1961 Blue Grass Stakes. Eight other horses trail as a packed crowd looks on from the grandstand and apron.

This photograph features the start of the 1958 Blue Grass Stakes. Plion went on to win with Dave Erb up. Trained by Tom Jolley, the colt edged out 2nd place finisher Warren G by 3/4 length.

This photograph features Chateaugay, Braulio Baeza up, at the 1963 Blue Grass Stakes.

One of 11 Blue Grass winners to also notch Kentucky Derby victories, Chateaugay won the 1963 Blue Grass Stakes by a head for Darby Dan Farm. Trained by James P.…

This photo captures 1964 Champion Three-Year-Old Colt, 1964 Canadian Horse of the Year, and future influential sire and Racing Hall of Famer Northern Dancer at Keeneland during a workout under Ramon Cerda before claiming the Blue Grass Stakes,…

This photograph features Thoroughbred owner/breeder Ira Drymon with owner Gertrude 'Gertie' T. Douglas Widener at a sale.

This is a photograph of the Spendthrift Farm residence taken in February of 1960.

This photograph features Sunday Evening with her foal at Greentree Stable. Sunday Evening retired with a record of 8 starts for 3 wins, 2 seconds, and 1 third.