Industry & National

GEORGETOWN, Ky. — On the track, Kentucky Derby winner Silver Charm was known for his photo finishes. Twenty-five years later, he’s a master of selfies. The gray stallion, who won the 1997 Run for the Roses, knows how to smile at the camera when tour groups come to see him at Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement […]

GEORGETOWN,Ky. — Medina Spirit’s ashes were buried on Old Friends Farm in Georgetown. On Tuesday, April 5, 2022, fans of the race horse could pay their respects to the athlete and visit his gravesite. Rain or shine, Michael Blowen was going to celebrate the life of Medina Spirit. Read more on Spectrum News.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – Crowds gathered, to pay their respects to a champion thoroughbred at Old Friends Farm in Georgetown. “People came from all over the place,” said Michael Blowen, president and founder of Old Friends Farm. “They came from hundreds of miles people came to pay tribute to this horse on a rainy ugly […]

GEORGETOWN, Ky. (WAVE) – Horse racing fans gathered at Old Friends Farm in Georgetown on Tuesday to pay respects to Medina Spirit. Medina Spirit’s ashes were interred alongside Kentucky Derby winners Charismatic and War Emblem on Tuesday with fans and trainers saying their final goodbyes. Read more on Wave 3.

SCOTT COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) — Michael Blowen said of the many great thoroughbred champions on his farm, that we expect so much of these horses and they expect very little if anything in return. Mr. Blowen runs Old Friends Farm in Georgetown, which is the retirement home for former racehorses. It’s also the final […]

Six pensioned stallions from Shadwell Farm have been donated to Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement. Albertus Maximus, Kayrawan, Intidab, Mustanfar, Dumaani, and Swain were relocated in recent weeks from Shadwell’s Nashwan Stud complex to the non-profit organization’s Georgetown, KY., farm, joining its 143 other residents, including 1997 Kentucky Derby – Preakness winner Silver Charm and Belmont […]

GEORGETOWN, Ky. (WTVQ) – Old Friends Farm in Georgetown is holding a contest to name a filly. The farm says High Heels ’19 is a 3-year-old filly who wasn’t able to race because of an injury and still needs a proper name. According to Old Friends, the public is invited to participate in the naming […]

Medina Spirit, the disqualified winner of the 2021 Kentucky Derby, will be interred at Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Farm in the Nikki Bacharach Memorial Garden alongside Kentucky Derby winners Charismatic and War Emblem. Read more at News-Graphic.

Old Friends, the Thoroughbred Retirement facility near Georgetown, Ky., announced Feb. 25 that the farm has been chosen as the final resting place of multiple graded stakes winner Medina Spirit . Read more at The Blood-Horse.

Affirmed Success (Affirmed–Towering Succes, by Irish Tower), a three-time Grade I winner at seven and eight furlongs and back-to-back winner of the GIII Poker H. on the turf, was euthanized Feb. 16 at Old Friends in Georgetown, Kentucky. He was 28 years old and according to attending veterinarians, was suffering from chronic hoof infections. Read more […]