Lexington
Sports
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Legends |
The Lexington Legends, who play in Lexington, Kentucky, are a Class A minor league baseball team affiliated with the Houston Astros, in the South Atlantic League. They play their home games at Applebee's Park, located in an industrial area on the northeast side of the city just inside New Circle Road (the city's inner beltway). |  |
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The Lexington Horsemen are an af2 team based in Lexington, Kentucky. They play their home games at Rupp Arena. They began as a 2003 expansion member of the National Indoor Football League, where they were successful. After defeating the Sioux Falls Storm to win Indoor Bowl IV, the Horsemen decided to join the new United Indoor Football (UIF) as a charter member, where they made the playoffs, yet ironically lost to the Sioux Falls Storm (the team they beat in their last year in the NIFL). They made the playoffs again in 2006 and made it all the way to United Bowl II; but they, again, lost to the Sioux Falls Storm. |  |
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University
of Kentucky Wildcats
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The
Kentucky Wildcats are the men's and women's athletic teams representing
the University of Kentucky (UK), a founding member of the Southeastern Conference.
At one time, women's teams and athletes were called "Lady Kats",
but the women's programs adopted the "Wildcats" nickname in the
early 1990s. Teams sponsored by the UK athletic program include football,
men's & women's basketball, women's volleyball, baseball, softball,
men's & women's cross country, men's & women's swimming/diving,
women's gymnastics (known as the GymKats), men's & women's soccer, men's
& women's track & field (indoor & outdoor), men's & women's
golf, men's & women's tennis, and the coeducational sport of rifle.
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Transylvania
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Transylvania University is a private liberal arts college related by covenant to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) located in Lexington, Kentucky, with approximately 1,100 students. |  |
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Red Mile 1200 Red Mile Rd. Lexington, KY 40504 |
The Red Mile is a horse racing track located in Lexington, KY. The track hosts harness racing, a type of horse racing in which the horses must pull two-wheeled carts called sulkies while racing. It is one of harness racing's most famous tracks and is located in the heart of the Bluegrass region, an area of Kentucky famous for horse breeding and racing. |  |
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Keeneland
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Keeneland is a thoroughbred horse racing and sales complex in Lexington, Kentucky, and operated by the Keeneland Association. |  |
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