Michael Blowen glanced at the 1977 Sports Illustrated cover of Triple Crown champion Seattle Slew when it arrived in the mail and immediately discarded it. A horse on the cover of such a prominent magazine? “I thought thinking of them as athletes was absurd,” he said. Blowen, then a writer for the Boston Globe, accompanied Bob Taylor, one of his […]
[ Read More ]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 […]
[ Read More ]President of Old Friends Farm talks about spreading aftercare knowledge at Pimlico. Watch it here.
[ Read More ]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.
[ Read More ]Catch up with the Hall-of-Fame inducted winner of the 123rd Kentucky Derby (G1) on Blood-Horse here.
[ Read More ]Anne Eberhardt visits Old Friends in Georgetown, KY and talks with Michael Blowen about the multiple graded stakes winner Green Mask, in the next episode of our new BH+ series. Watch the Blood-Horse video here.
[ Read More ]Anne Eberhardt visits Old Friends and talks with Michael Blowen about Any Given Saturday in our new BH+ series Watch the video here,
[ Read More ]NEW YORK/SARATOGA SPRINGS — I Think I Love You Animal Foundation, Inc. – a 501c3 nonprofit organization based in New York created in memory of David Cassidy – was contacted through their Facebook page that former racehorse Dixieland Squall was on her way to a kill pen in a matter of days. The 19-year-old thoroughbred had […]
[ Read More ]Million-dollar yearling, grade 1 winner, and successful sire Any Given Saturday arrived the afternoon of March 6 at Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Farm from an eight-year tour of duty as a stallion in South Korea. The 19-year-old son of Distorted Humor was pensioned from stud duty following last year’s breeding season. Michael Blowen, founder and […]
[ Read More ]Long before trainer Ron Moquett saddled 2020 Champion Male Sprinter Whitmore, he earned his first Grade 1 win in astounding fashion with 91-1 longshot Seek Gold in the 2006 Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs. The six-year-old bay gelding was making his first start for Moquett and new owners Kristi Couch and Ted Bowman, who had claimed […]
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