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Steinlen (GB), with Jose Santos up, won the 1989 Keeneland Breeders’ Cup Stakes, one of the first turf stakes at the track and now known as the Coolmore Turf Mile Stakes. Keeneland built the first turf course in the state of Kentucky in 1985.…

New Zealand native Peter Williams was a renowned equine artist and an unofficial artist-in-residence at Keeneland, where visitors could see him at work in the Paddock, painting colorful scenes of horses being saddled or walking to the post parade.

Keeneland first hosted the Breeders’ Cup World Championships in October 2015 when Triple Crown winner American Pharoah triumphed in the $5 million Classic by 6 ½ lengths in his final career race. Jockey Victor Espinoza celebrates the win in front of…

Wise Dan, named Horse of the Year in both 2012 and 2013, and won the 2010 Phoenix Stakes, the oldest stakes race in North America, which began at the Kentucky Association track in 1831. The race was named for the Phoenix Hotel, a downtown Lexington…

The 2015 Distaff at the Breeders’ Cup World Championship was won by Stopchargingmaria with Javier Castellano up, seen here about to take the lead down the stretch, second from the far outside. Along the turn and the top of the stretch are several…

The Blue Grass Stakes was originally run at the Kentucky Association track starting in 1911. Offered for 3-year-olds, it has always been an important race for the division as a major prep for the Kentucky Derby and was revived at Keeneland in the…

Helicopter delivers programs for the first time in the infield at Keeneland during the 1969 Spring Meet.

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.

Crowds gather along the track apron and in the Grandstand to watch a race during the 1947 Spring Meet at Keeneland.