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Some 8,500 thoroughbred horses are foaled each year in the U.S. Far & away the richest and most concentrated area of production is the 1,200 square miles of gently rolling bluegrass country which surrounds Lexington, Ky. Here, on some 200 farms ranging up to 2,500 acres, the billion-dollar U.S. horse-breeding industry has its fanciest showcase and raises its finest horses...
...year attracted 24 million spectators (1952 attendance is up 10%) -and contributed $99 million in taxes (on a billion and a half in bets) to the 24 states which have race tracks. Of the 319 stakes winners in North American flat racing last year, 162 were foaled in the Bluegrass State. Some of the farms that bred these stars (and hundreds of lesser performers) are pictured on the next four pages...
After Ohio's author-farmer Louis Bromfield called Kentucky bluegrass a "noxious weed," Kentucky's Governor Lawrence W. Wetherby and a group of fellow bluegrass fans hopped a plane and headed for Bromfield's Malabar Farm near Mansfield to convert the heretic. First step: the gift of a sack of bluegrass seed. Further inducements: a case of Kentucky bourbon and a home-smoked...
When Virgil Chapman moved up to the U.S. Senate in 1948, the man who stepped into his old seat as Congressman from Kentucky's Bluegrass sixth district was Thomas R. Underwood, 53, a husky, bushy-haired newspaper editor (the Lexington Herald) and amiable, self-effacing member of Kentucky's ruling Democratic Big Five. Last week Tom Underwood stepped up to replace Chapman once again. Nine days after Virgil Chapman's death as a result of a Washington automobile accident (TiME, March 19), Congressman Underwood was named to fill the Senate vacancy...
...Kentucky, where men pride themselves on their ability to recognize good whisky, they tell a story to illustrate the art. Two Bluegrass Senators sat down to sample a barrel of bourbon. "Mighty fine likker," allowed one Senator tentatively. After rolling it over on his tongue he added: "But there's something in that barrel that gives it a slight metallic taste." The other Senator took a dipperful, disagreed. "It's a slight leathery taste," he said. Laying a wager as to which was right, they kept dipping until the barrel was empty, then turned it over...