The Kentucky General Assembly passed an act, approved January 26, 1866, incorporating the Kentucky Stud Farm Association with capital stock not to exceed $250,000. This act was intended to encourage improvement in the breed of horses in the Commonwealth, which had suffered “the injurious effects of the late war.”
A. J. Alexander’s Woodburn farm in Woodford County assumed a leadership role in the improvement of livestock including shorthorn cattle, sheep, thoroughbred horses, and “trotting stock.” Several prize horses were “appropriated” by soldiers from Woodburn during the Civil War. KHS Collections.
