We are saddened by the passing of Old Friends’ longest-time Thoroughbred resident, Riva Way, who has lived at Old Friends in Kentucky since 2005—almost twenty years. On the track, Riva was just a claimer, but he was one of the most loved personalities at Old Friends. Read More
[ Read More ]“Michael Blowen loves “being old.” Those are his words, not mine! After years as a film critic for the Boston Globe, he snapped. In the middle of an awful movie, he stood up and yelled at the other critics: “How can you endure this?” Today, he’s so much happier. As the founder of Old Friends, a Thoroughbred […]
[ Read More ]“It was just another day making sales calls. About eight years ago, I walked into a Farmstead Veterinary clinic in rural Indiana and looked at their wall-mounted cork board–the kind with tacked-up business cards. There was a gleaming picture of a horse with a flaxen mane and tail. I said to Ken Kimmick, DVM, “I […]
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