The 2025 Old Friends Calendar is Now Available!
Keeneland Library – The Heart of the Turf: Racing’s Black Pioneers
October 2-31
Old Friends Josephine Abercrombie Center
October 2-31
Old Friends Josephine Abercrombie Center
Who We Are
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Michael Blowen started Old Friends in 2003 with one horse and a rented paddock. Things have changed.
READ OUR STORY
Our Horses
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Our 280+ retirees range from two Kentucky Derby winners to horses who have never started a race.
VIEW HORSE PROFILES
Visit Us
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Ranked as one of Kentucky's top tourist destinations, we are open daily for guided tours by reservation.
HOW TO BOOK A TOUR
How to Help
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Want to support our favorite retirees? We offer programs to help hooves, individual horses, mares, infrastructure and more.
CHOOSE HOW TO GIVE
Old Friends ebay store By the numbers
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480 Horses
3,315 + Races won
$ 322,611,698 Earned
100% Safely Retired
News
Alphabet Soup: ‘Honest to a fault – when he was right, he ran his heart out, win or lose’
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Old Friends Welcomes Cozmic One, First Born Foal of Zenyatta
Thursday, October 3, 2024
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Big Brown, Winner of the 2008 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes Joins Old Friends
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
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