Never a more fitting venue has the FEI World Equestrian Games known than the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. Three of the most exciting and renowned thoroughbred race horses to ever grace the track are stabled here, namely Funny Cide, Alysheba, and Cigar. 1,200 acres of rolling, calming, legendary Bluegrass appeal make up this equine haven, a place where history, mystique, tradition, and powerful talent have created some of the most memorable and whole hearted equine legends since the settling of America. Was there even a question as to where else in the U.S. to hold the prestigious world games? If there was, it was quickly put to bed.

The Kentucky Horse Park is a place where everything horses is cherished, and a place where horse lovers can come during any time of the year to celebrate the scents, warmth, and allover good feeling of watching them sleep, eat, work, compete, and play. There are 18 breeds of horse stabled here, and each of them offer a very unique educational experience to adoring visitors. Not the least popular activity on the property is the opportunity to tour the grounds via horse drawn carriage, where a guide will remind you of all of the things that brought you out to horse country in the first place.

The International Museum of the Horse is a Smithsonian affiliate, and is one of the most broadly useful and informative looks into the natural history and centuries of culture that the equine has contributed to the world. You will learn the entire anatomy of the horse, as well as proper terminologies, where he came from, what he used to be, and why he is so honored and revered the world over. Once you have finished there, you might want to check out the American Saddlebred Museum, where you can learn about the only breed original to Kentucky itself.

The grave of Man O War was exhumed from Faraway Farm, where he was buried in 1947, and his remains brought to rest at Kentucky Horse Park during the early 1970s. Just keep an eye out for the famous, beautiful statue of the legendary horse, as this is the marker to his grave. The venue for the 2010 world games is most certainly a living celebration of everything that the horse is, was, and will always be to the world, and as such is honored and privileged to share its one of a kind venue with the world.