Old Friends News

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 – MARCH 23, 2022 – Six pensioned stallions from the Lexington, KY., -based 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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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.

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 […]

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.

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.

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 […]