The painting of Lexington now adorns a wall in the Keeneland ... If you think you might have a painting by Thomas J. Scott, you can contact Burnette and Lacer at g.burnette@insightbb.com.

Thomas J. Scott was an itinerant artist and journalist who painted perhaps 200 or more race horse portraits before he died of pneumonia in Lexington's old St. Joseph Hospital in 1888. Scott was a ...