Travel: Kentucky Spring

[merucha]

Every few years I travel to Kentucky to visit friends who live in horse-racing country. Better yet, they are old horse-racing people. It's a wonderful time to be there.  The yearlings are let out to pasture:

And wild violets stud the grass with purple and white:


Young men go wading on Boone Creek:


And kitties play mighty hunter:


But primarily it's time for horseracing, which is both business and art, high society and high finance:


Some of these little knockneed ones will sell for millions of dollars!
 

Comments

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

I think you'd enjoy seeing Appleby Horse fair over in the UK. It's been happening since 1635 and it's fantastic to see so many beautiful animals in one place. My parents live in Appleby so I get to stay there free! One of my favourite things is the signs on the motorway warning drivers to be aware of 'Horse Drawn vehicles' on the main road to Appleby. It's one of the few times you'll see traditional Gypsy caravans on a modern road system in England!

The BBC have a page about it here and the local Newspaper, the Westmorland Gazette, also has some pictures here.

[merucha.livejournal.com]

That is the coolest. Ok, ok, goes on vacation list. It's getting so that I'm booked through 2056!