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 […]
[ Read More ]Name Our Filly High Heels ’19 is a 3-year-old filly by Mineshaft out of the mare High Heels. She is a registered Thoroughbred, unraced due to injury, and so is without a proper name. Before she has a total identity crisis, we’re asking your help to secure this pretty girl the perfect moniker. The Deets […]
[ Read More ]He had a tough constitution to run 91 races and win 14 of them, including two stakes. But ferocious he was not. He was one of the sweetest horses ever to grace Old Friends.
[ Read More ]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.
[ Read More ]GEORGETOWN, KY – FEB. 25, 2022 —Old Friends, the Thoroughbred Retirement facility in Georgetown, KY., announced today that the farm has been chosen as the final resting place of multiple graded stakes winner Medina Spirit. Medina Spirit’s ashes will be interred in Old Friends’s Nikki Bacharach Memorial Garden alongside such champions as Kentucky Derby Winners […]
[ Read More ]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.
[ Read More ]The passing of Affirmed Success last week was a profound change, the going of one of the foundations of Old Friends. It wasn’t just that he’d been with us since 2007. Or that he was the last of Affirmed’s greatest sons. It was who he was.
[ Read More ]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 […]
[ Read More ]Multiple graded stakes winner Albert the Great was euthanized November 19 at Old Friends where he has been pensioned since 2017. According to attending veterinarian Dr. Bryan Waldridge, the 23-year-old stallion was euthanized due to chronic sinus infection.
[ Read More ]Multiple graded stakes winner and pensioned New York stallion Cosmonaut was humanely euthanized Oct. 29 at Cornell Equine Hospital due to complications from surgery. The gray son of Lemon Drop Kid was 19.
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