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66 SUMMER 2016 K KEENELAND.COM Fifty years after getting the green light, Keeneland's sales pavilion continues its state-of-the-art run "DO I HEAR …" By Terri Darr McLean Call it "The Case of the Missing Arches." For fve weeks in the late 1960s, during construction of the state-of-the- art $700,000 sales pavilion at Keeneland Race Course, a mystery ensued that created "moments of grave suspense," as former Keeneland presi- dent James E. "Ted" Bassett III recalled. At the center of the mystery: the massive arches made of Canadian fr that would support the new pavilion and become the hallmark of its unique design. It seemed the two open-bed freight cars carrying the arches from Canada to Lexington had simply vanished.