![]() ![]() Castlewood Park was once a part of The Meadow. Once sitting just outside the city, stone pillars mark the western border on Bryan Avenue at the corner of Emerson Drive and on Warfield Place, which used to be the drive to Warfield's mansion. Vestiges of The Meadows still remain just a few blocks north and east of modern downtown Lexington. The Association track is long gone, although its historic gate post with the famous "KA" now graces the entrance to Keeneland Racecourse on the other side of town. In 1826 he became one of the founders of the Kentucky Association Race Track, which was built on land adjacent to his farm. He retired from medical practice to engage in other pursuits including his family's local mercantile and ownership in the Lexington and Ohio Railroad, besides breeding racehorses. Originally from Maryland, Warfield was a prominent physician and professor of surgery and obstetrics at his alma mater Transylvania University. Elisha Warfield (1781-1859), one of the most important early figures in Kentucky racing and breeding. ![]() The birthplace of the horse known as Lexington lies within the current city limits of his namesake town. Lexington clearly hasn't forgotten Lexington, or what he did for Kentucky or what he did for the Thoroughbred. Modern visitors to the city of Lexington in the heart of Kentucky's horse country are reminded of this remarkable horse every day since his image in blue can be seen everywhere guiding tourists to the beauty and history of the region. Lexington was the greatest of the great American four-mile runners and the greatest of the great Nineteenth Century American stallions. ![]()
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