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Lexington (March 17, 1850 – July 1, 1875) was a United States Thoroughbred race horse who won six of his seven race starts. Perhaps his greatest fame, however, came as the most successful sire of the second half of the nineteenth century; he was the leading sire in North America 16 times, and broodmare sire of many notable racehorses.
Matthew Harris Jouett (Mercer County, Kentucky, 22 April 1788 – Lexington, Kentucky, 10 August 1827) was a noted American portrait painter, famous for painting portraits including Thomas Jefferson, George Rogers Clark and Lafayette.
While living in Kentucky, Troye painted portraits and race horses for the local families in Georgetown, Kentucky. He worked primarily for the Steele and Alexander families, and Alexander "Keene" Richards. [2] Troye taught French and drawing at Spring Hill College, 1849–1855. [2]
Jarrett Brown (born January 23, 1987) is a former American football quarterback. He played college football at West Virginia , and was signed by the San Francisco 49ers as an undrafted free agent following the 2010 NFL draft .
John Benjamin Pryor (1812 – December 26, 1890), was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.He trained Lexington, a top racehorse of the 1850s whose excellence in competition and reputation as a sire stud continued well into the 20th century, earning the horse induction into the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1955.
Lebby was known for his portraiture: a number of his state and other commissioned portraits of famous legislators, judges, educators and activists hang in the South Carolina State House and other public spaces: Benjamin Mayes (1981) [4] [5] Richard Theodore Greener (1984) [6] Modjeska Monteith Simkins (1995) [7]
Vanessa Gallman, a barrier-breaking journalist who helped steer Lexington’s conscience for more than two decades as the editorial page editor of the Lexington Herald-Leader, died Monday, Feb. 3 ...
He followed this painting with John Brown's Blessing (1866) which depicted the abolitionist activist John Brown being led to his execution and blessing a child on the steps of the courthouse. His third painting, The Modern Medea (1867), portrayed the tragic event from 1856 in which Margaret Garner , a fugitive slave mother, murdered her ...