Archive for May 2023

Please take a moment to watch this video in memory of our horses that we lost this past year. As always, thank you for your support.

GEORGETOWN, Ky. – May 26, 2023 – Old Friends, the Thoroughbred retirement farm in Georgetown, Ky., announced that graded-stakes winner Jonesboro died at the farm on Thursday, May 25, 2023. The 21-year old stallion was found deceased in his paddock during morning rounds. Necropsy results are pending. Jonesboro was bred by Jayeff “B” Stables and foaled in […]

A Farewell to the Horses That Have Passed Please Join us Monday May 29, 2023 at 1 p.m. for Old Friends’s Annual Tribute to our Recently Deceased Horses Afternoon Deelites Albertus Maximus Devilocity Lass Disturbingthepeace Dumaani Eye of the Tiger Favorite Holy Estrapade Hussonfirst Inaspecial Way Kudos Miss Saigon Mustanfar Mystery Trip Star Plus Swain Thornfield Victor […]

GEORGETOWN, KY. – May 23, 2023 – Old Friends, the Thoroughbred Retirement facility in Georgetown, Ky., is pleased to announce that Be Better, who is owned by Mike Repole, earned retirement for life at Old Friends with his win in the Old Friends Purse Presented by Josephine Abercrombie on Saturday, May 20, 2023, at Pimlico Race Course. […]

A home for life. That’s what the winner of Race 2 Saturday at Pimlico Race Course will earn. Saturday’s program, highlighted by the 148th running of the Preakness (G1), will give the winner of the 1 1/16-mile event an automatic retirement to Old Friends in Georgetown, Ky., should it ever be needed. Read more on the […]

President of Old Friends Farm talks about spreading aftercare knowledge at Pimlico. Watch it here.

At Old Friends, a retirement farm for Thoroughbreds whose careers have ended, Michael Blowen gives racehorses the best kind of Kentucky retirement. Read more on Southern Living.

GEORGETOWN, KY. – May 4, 2023 – Old Friends, the Thoroughbred Retirement Facility in Georgetown, KY, will host its 18th Annual Homecoming Event on Sunday, May 7th, beginning at 12 noon. The event features a live and silent auction of artwork, prints, and racing memorabilia, including several premiere collectible stallion halters. For those unable to attend the […]

Catch up with the Hall-of-Fame inducted winner of the 123rd Kentucky Derby (G1) on Blood-Horse here.

GEORGETOWN, KY. – May 1, 2023 – Old Friends, the Thoroughbred Retirement facility in Georgetown, Ky., announced today that Mystery Trip, an unraced mare who came to the farm courtesy of LNJ Foxwoods, was euthanized due to chronic hoof issues. She was 22. Bred by W. S. Farish & Kilroy Thoroughbred Partnership, Mystery Trip was foaled in […]