Went to Keeneland this past weekend - Pics
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Man I love Keeneland. People do not realize it is THE most beautiful track and surroundings in the world. Only open 8 weeks a year for racing. Thanks for sharing Nick.
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Keeneland is nice but nothing comes close to the new Meydan Race Course in Dubai. It is unreal.
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whatever airportis, just because money buys it does not make it the best. In the middle of the desert.......yeah, that is great surroundings 
whatever airportis, just because money buys it does not make it the best. In the middle of the desert.......yeah, that is great surroundings
Compared to the middle of Kentucky. . . .:shrug:
Oh! Wait! That wasn't a personal attack.....it was public - and really it is not an attack - it was a suggestion.
census 2010 coming too :scared
BIG CREEK, Ky. ? A census worker found hanged from a tree with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest met his end in a corner of Appalachia with an abundance of meth labs and marijuana fields ? and a reputation for mistrusting government that dates back to the days of moonshiners and "revenuers."
But the investigation has yet to determine whether the death of the 51-year-old part-time schoolteacher represents real anti-government sentiment. At this point, police cannot say whether Bill Sparkman's death was a homicide, an accident or even a suicide.
"We are not downplaying the significance of his position with the U.S. Census bureau," said Capt. Lisa Rudzinski, commander of the Kentucky State Police post in London. "We can assure the public we are looking at every possible aspect of Mr. Sparkman's death."
But locals are already bracing for suggestions that the killing was the result of anti-government sentiment in the mountains. It does not help that the death occurred in impoverished Clay County, one of the poorest in the country with an unemployment rate of 14.5 percent and an overall poverty rate more than three times the national average.
Sparkman, a Boy Scout leader and substitute teacher who was supplementing his income as a part-time census field worker, was found Sept. 12 in a remote patch of the Daniel Boone National Forest.
Police said Thursday that the preliminary cause of death was asphyxiation. Authorities said Sparkman, who a friend said had been treated for cancer, was found with a rope around his neck that was tied to a tree, but that he was "in contact with the ground."
The word "fed" had been scrawled on his chest, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the case.
Dee Davis, president of the Center for Rural Strategies in nearby Whitesburg, said the federal government has done "precious little" in Clay County other than building a federal prison in Manchester in the 1990s. But he is not aware of any deep-seated hatred of the government.
"Government is not seen as the enemy, except for people who might fear getting caught for what they're doing," he said.
Army retiree George Robinson did door-to-door census work in Clay County in 2000. No one ever threatened him, but some people questioned why the government needed to know some of the information, especially income, requested on the census form.
"You meet some strange people," he said. "Nothing is a surprise in Clay County."
