In the end, friends will go right on doing business with friends.

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You will know there is something special in the air the moment you arrive in BlueGrass Country. The quaint old homes and the circle that wraps entirely around our city will captivate you and you will quickly notice the warmth and hospitality of our people, the strong employment opportunities, our outstanding educational facilities and our lovely places to worship, regardless of preference, will be copious.

Welcome to Lexington! The Horse Capital of the World! Allow me to take you on a tour of Lexington with its’ majestic rolling hills and the most beautiful bluegrass you have ever seen. Your visit might well include a drive by our unsurpassed horse farms with an old Kentucky home standing stately on the grounds. These homes often serve as residences, or even offices. Some owners will occasionally open their land for visitors to enjoy. Your casual tour perhaps may include observing the protective mares frolicking with their new born foals on land so rich one cannot imagine. The utter beauty of the rolling hills enveloped by miles and miles of white fences is certain to enchant you. You might even see some of our great champion horses along the way.

You will quickly learn that many of the visitors to Lexington never want to leave and often times will later call it home. Lexington, with its’ wide open country side and beautiful horse farms, has it all. Our historical homes, including that of Henry Clay and Mary Todd Lincoln are surely a sight to be seen and you will totally enjoy the vast array of shopping plazas that will please every visitor.  Keeneland Race Track with the razor cut shrubbery and majestic trees allows you to visit the paddock and draw only closer to enjoy the brilliance of our prized thoroughbreds before placing a wager.

You will also enjoy the arts; the range of finest cuisine offered anywhere, our madness when it comes to sports, our historical sites which include the unsurpassed horse farms. You will never lack for a superior education, whether secondary or higher education.  We are a city of persons who takes pride in our town whether it be our unparalleled researchers striving daily for new cures, or educators with utmost devotion to the future of Lexington in the palm of their hands, an unprecedented Chamber of Commerce, and a Better Business Bureau who earns the respect of all.

While our amazing growth is very metropolitan, we caress the aura of a small home town. In addition to seeing all our loveliness, you will also enjoy four distinct seasons, which include cool plateau breezes, comfortable nights and prolonged periods of heat, cold, rain, snow and wind.

Lexington has a population of approximately 282,000 and boasts of having three Fortune 500 Companies, namely Affiliated Computer Services, LexMark International, and Hewlett Packard in addition to the University of Kentucky and Toyota Plant as a close neighbor.  In 2008 Forbes Magazine named us fifth in the nation for the “best city for business and careers.” We are extremely proud to have been chosen the “Hosts” of the Alltech FEI World Equine Games in 2010.

Again, welcome and enjoy all that we have to offer. It is bountiful!