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Crowds gather at the south entrance to the Grandstand for a race day in April 1958. The booth selling admission tickets can be seen just below the awning. To the right of the crowd is part of the parking lot and, in the distance, several barns.

Crews at work replacing seats in the Grandstand at Keeneland

Crews at work preparing to install new boxes on the Grandstand at Keeneland

Horses walk from the Paddock to the track between the Grandstand and Clubhouse during the 1952 Fall Meet.

Teams of mules and tractors drag the surface of the track between races at the 1958 Spring Meet.

Horses are unsaddled on the track after a race at the 1953 Fall Meet.

Horses approach the finish line during a race at Keeneland while crowds watch from the Grandstand and the track apron

One of the goals for Keeneland’s founders was to establish races for fillies and mares in order to test the endurance and speed of breeding stock. The Spinster Stakes was proposed by Hal Price Headley and inaugurated at the 1956 Fall Meet as the…

Aerial view during construction of the new section connecting the Grandstand and Clubhouse at Keeneland

View of the track, Clubhouse, and Grandstand from the infield at Keeneland after snowfall