George, Liz & Ted
Helen Hayes & Mickey Rooney
Priscilla Presley & Robert Sangster
Sheik Mohammed Maktoum
GEORGE, LIZ, & TED: The late actress Elizabeth Taylor is among the many intriguing personalities who have visited Keeneland over the years. In 1986, Taylor and her friend, actor George Hamilton (left) attended the races as guests of Keeneland and its oďŹƒcers, including Chairman Ted Bassett (right) HELEN HAYES & MICKEY ROONEY: Actor Mickey Rooney, who starred in racing movies National Velvet (1944) and The Black Stallion (1979), visited Keeneland in 1987 with Academy Award-winning actress Helen Hayes PRISCILLA PRESLEY & ROBERT SANGSTER: Drawn partly by the boom in yearling sales during the early 1980s, stars came to Keeneland to see the dollars fly in the sale pavilion. Among the attendees in 1984 was Priscilla Presley, who had been married to Elvis Presley for six years, and she was photographed with Robert Sangster SHEIK MOHAMMED MAKTOUM: A young Sheikh Mohammed, then age 32, at the Keeneland July selected yearling sale with his advisor, Col. Dick Warden, in 1981, the year he bought future Irish Derby winner Shareef Dancer for $3.3 million. At the same sale, Robert Sangster set a world record by paying $3.5 million for another son of Northern Dancer, Ballydoyle, who never won a stakes
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