Private Kentucky Farm Tours

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Scott County allows liquor to be served in certain restaurants with dinner. No packaged goods available.

"First Chance-Last Chance" liquors is the closest place <g>

If one googles "Horse Farm Tours" for Lexington, call them and ask them what farms they visit - they do get you into some farms that normally don't like to do general public tours, and they do give you a beautiful driving tour of the bluegrass (you get to sit and watch). So if you want someone to "do it for you" for a morning or afternoon, these are terrific.

Here's some reliable good ones:
http://bluegrasstours.com/
http://www.horsefarmtours.com/

http://www.seethechampions.com/

If you want to do it yourself, yes, simply call and ask, and if the farms can accomodate you they certainly try to :-) Three Chimneys is good, and Claiborn out in Paris is very fun to visit - they use the same breeding shed they always have ... and the graveyard (Secretariat, Bold Ruler, etc) is amazing for the influential horseflesh the farm has owned. Walking through the two old stud barns, with all the former occupants brass nameplates still on the doors - gives ya shivers - pretty cool.

PS e-mail me before you come if you want, Old Friends is just up the road from me, I'm always up to lunch or dinner with a fellow Dee Tee-er! <g>