Today is the 26th anniversary of Victor Cooley’s win in the Marine Stakes at Woodbine. That day he set a speed record of 1 1/16 mile in 1:41.80 that stands to this day. We are saddened that we can’t go up to Victor’s paddock on the back 40 and celebrate with him. Read more here.
[ Read More ]GEORGETOWN, KY – JUNE 27, 2022 — Two-time GR3 winner Mustanfar was humanely euthanized today at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital. He was 21. A full necropsy is currently pending. Bred and owned by Shadwell Farm, Mustanfar, along with five other retired stallions, was recently relocated to Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement in Georgetown, KY. as […]
[ Read More ]GEORGETOWN, KY – JUNE 27, 2022 – Victor Cooley, Canada’s 1996 Champion Three-Year-Old Colt and Queen’s Plate winner, was euthanized today at Old Friends, the Thoroughbred Retirement farm based in Georgetown, KY, where he has been pensioned since 2014. The gelding was 29. According to attending veterinarian Dr. Ashton Broman, Victor Cooley suffered an acute onset […]
[ Read More ]You and I, a son of Kris S and the Peruvian mare La Chaposa (by Ups), was foaled thirty-one years ago in Florida. He went into training with Stanley Hough for Triumviri Stable and won the Cowdin (G2), a leading juvenile stakes. Read more here.
[ Read More ]On the 25th anniversary of the Touch Gold — Silver Charm Belmont Stakes, it is time to get nostalgic and recall my personal interest in that historic race and how the journalist and racing fan in me clashed and left part of me ecstatic and another part sad following the race, which is what happens […]
[ Read More ]GEORGETOWN, KY – JUNE 6, 2022 – You and I, the multiple graded stakes winning son of Kris S, has died. A pensioner at Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement in Georgetown, KY., since 2011, You and I was 31 and was suffering infirmities of old age. In 1993, as a two-year-old, You and I was a […]
[ Read More ]Please Join us Monday May 30, 2022 for Old Friends’s Annual Tribute to our Recently Deceased Horses AFLEET ACCOMPLI ELUSIVE HONEY GALLAPIAT’S MOMENT SPECIAL IMAGE HOGY HAY JUDE CAPTURE THE POWER COSMONAUT (NY) NORTHERN STONE DISCREET HERO ALBERT THE GREAT POPCORN DEELITES ALPHABET SOUP AFFIRMED SUCCESS FEROCIOUS WON RIVER SQUALL ZIPPY CHIPPY (NY) CAN’T HELP […]
[ Read More ]Thank you for entering our Filly naming contest and for voting for one of the five finalists. As they say at the Oscars…And the winner is: GOLDISOCKS! Congratulations to Vicki Stoltz who was the first to submit the name for consideration based on date and time of the email. But wait, there’s a little bit more […]
[ Read More ]It was just his second time at the Preakness, a race the future Hall of Fame trainer would later come to own, so pardon Bob Baffert if he was a little confused by the idiosyncrasies that come with being the second-oldest racetrack in the United States. In one of the most memorable finishes in the […]
[ Read More ]Slamming was a good old horse. The kind who could carry the world on his back and just might do that for you. All his life he generously gave all that was asked of him. He never asked for a lot, but he inspired a whole lot of love Read more.
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