Runnymede Farm

Runnymede Farm is an American horse breeding farm located outside Paris, Kentucky on U.S. Route 27, the Paris-Cynthiana Road. It is said to be the longest continuously running Thoroughbred horse farm in Kentucky, 365-acre (1.48 km2) established in 1867 by American Civil War Colonel Ezekiel Field Clay.

Runnymede Farm
Company typeHorse breeding
IndustryThoroughbred Horse racing
Founded1867
HeadquartersParis, Kentucky, United States
Key people
Founder: Ezekiel F. Clay
Current owner:
Catesby Woodford Clay
Websitewww.runnymedefarmky.com

Colonel Ezekiel Clay (1840–1920), whose father, Brutus J. Clay, was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives and the United States House of Representatives and a breeder of Thoroughbreds and champion cattle. He was a nephew of abolitionist Cassius Clay and a cousin to Henry Clay.

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