KENTUCKY (KY) Bluegrass State Louisville Frank KENTU Fast Facts State Capital: Frankfort Population: 4,041,769 (Census 2000) Land Area: 39,728 square miles Year Admitted tg the Union: 1792 Bowling Gun he unusual color of Kentucky bluegrass during the blooming season in late May. rich grass provides perfect grazing for the ngion lag mostly Tamous The umusual color of Kentucky bluegrass appears mostly during the blooming season in late May. J 1c1um- - rich grass provides perfect grazing for the si thoroughbred horses. Kentucky's Calumet F produced nine Kentucky Derby winners incl Whirlaway. The Derby, with a purse (prize) of $600,000, takes place in Loui Saturday in May. Run contimously at Churchill Downs since 1875, the race and is finished in a very exciting two minutes. It is the first leg of horse racin Horses probably ran wild in Kentucky back when it was a hunting and easter Indian tribes, before Europeans arrived. In 1750, explorer Thomas the Cumberland Gap through the Cumberland Mountains. The gap had a to Native Americans who followed deer and buffalo trails In 1775, Dani (marked) the Wildemess Trail through the Cumberland Gap allowing m pioneers to go west through the Appalachians, The Cumberland Gap Nai was fomed aroud this famous trail. lone has Citation and n the first $ 1.25 miles iple Crown. ug area for er discovered been known e blazed 1200,000 istorical Park the Another national park surrounds Mammoth Cave, the largest known can world. There are 350 miles of explored passages here, and perhaps as man Mighty calcite deposits hang from the ceiling (known as stalactites) and ri (stalagmites. Shaped like massive icicles, these deposits are formed when seeps through the earth from the hardwood forest above. Kentucky's wonders are well represented in song. In 1852, Stephen Foster, wrote "My Old Kentucky Home"— now Kentucky's state song. Several famous country singers were bom here inchiding Dwight Yoakam, Patty Loveless, and Loretta Lyn. Lynn's life story, Coal Miner's Daughter, was made into a movie in 1980. But perhaps the most well-known song witen in this state is the ofen. sung Happy составь кроссворд по этому тексту