Old Friends News

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 […]

GEORGETOWN, KY. – April 28, 2023 – Old Friends, the Thoroughbred Retirement facility in Georgetown, Ky., sadly announced today the passing of Disturbingthepeace, a two-time winner of the Pat O’Brian Stakes and earner of over $650,000, due to complications from colic. He was 25. Disturbingthepeace, who is by Bold Badgett-Regal Riot, by Sovereign Dancer, was a beautiful, […]

GEORGETOWN, KY. – April 26, 2023 – Old Friends, the Thoroughbred Retirement Farm in Georgetown, Ky., will dedicate three new street signs on the farm during its 18th Annual Homecoming event, Sunday, May 7, 2023, noon to 4 p.m. The new signs will honor three of horse racing’s long-time luminaries and supporters of Old Friends: * Dave […]

GEORGETOWN, KY. – April 11, 2023 – Old Friends, the Thoroughbred Retirement Farm in Georgetown, Ky., will host its 18th Annual Homecoming event on Sunday, May 7th, 2023 from 12 noon to 4 p.m. Homecoming event tickets are $40 for the general public and $20 for Old Friends Clubhouse members (children 12 and under are free). For tickets, […]

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.

Anne Eberhardt visits Old Friends and talks with Michael Blowen about Any Given Saturday in our new BH+ series Watch the video here,

Eye of the Tiger was bred and raced by John D. Gunther, who also bred Triple Crown winner Justify. Trained by Jerry Hollendorfer, then Kiaran McLaughlin, he won the Washington Park H (G2) and Affirmed H (G3) and was a competitor in the 2003 Kentucky Derby. After doing stud duty he retired to Old Friends […]

GEORGETOWN, KY. – March 19, 2023 – Eye of the Tiger, a two-time graded-stakes winner, was found dead in his paddock early Saturday morning, March 18, 2023 at Old Friends in Georgetown, Ky. Necropsy results are pending. Michael Blowen, founder and president of Old Friends, made the announcement on Sunday, March 19, 2023. Eye of the Tiger […]

GEORGETOWN, KY – March 21, 2023 – Old Friends, the Kentucky-based non-profit Thoroughbred Retirement facility, has broken ground on a state-of-the-art center at its Georgetown location to be called The Ms. Josephine Abercrombie Center at Old Friends. The structure, a renovation of an old tobacco barn, is sponsored in part by Josephine Abercrombie’s Pin Oak […]

GEORGETOWN, KY – March 6, 2023 – Any Given Saturday has been repatriated to the United States from South Korea to spend his retirement at Old Friends, the Thoroughbred Retirement Farm in Georgetown, Ky., founder and president of Old Friends, Michael Blowen, announced today. The son of Distorted Humor–Weekend in Indy, by A.P. Indy had […]