GEORGETOWN, Ky. (LEX 18) — The oldest living Kentucky Derby winner has many fans around the world, and it’s Silver Charm’s reputation as one of the great American race horses that’s helping give back to other retired thoroughbreds that need it most. The horse is living out his retirement at Old Friends in Georgetown, but that doesn’t mean […]
[ Read More ]GEORGETOWN, KY – OCT. 13, 2022 – Old Friends, the Thoroughbred Retirement Facility in Georgetown, KY., has welcomed a new retiree, Get Western. The winner of the final running of the Old Friends Stakes, the son of Get Stormy out of Marquetessa—a daughter of Old Friends retiree Marquetry—broke his maiden as a 3-year-old at Churchill Downs for […]
[ Read More ]Albertus Maximus won the 2008 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile. In 2009 he prevailed in the prestigious Donn Handicap, and he also won the Windy Sands Handicap in 2008. Read more here.
[ Read More ]GEORGETOWN, KY – OCT. 8, 2022 – Breeders’ Cup Champion Albertus Maximus has died. Recently pensioned to Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement from Shadwell’s Nashwan Stud, the 18-year-old stallion suffered a paddock accident that proved fatal, though a full necropsy is still pending. The son of Old Friends retiree Albert the Great, out of the Forty Niner mare Chasethewildwind, […]
[ Read More ]One of the questions I get asked the most these days, whether in person or on social media, is how Special Ring is doing after the passing of his best friend, Popcorn Deelites. Read more here.
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