Old Friends News

The 9-year old gelding comes to the farm courtesy of Adam Wachtel and his ownership group. GEORGETOWN, KY – Nov. 15, 2023 – Old Friends, the Thoroughbred retirement farm in Georgetown, Ky., is pleased to announce the arrival of graded-stakes winning millionaire, Channel Maker, on Tuesday, Nov. 14. The 9-year old award-winning chestnut gelding was donated to […]

The 9-year old gelding, who won his first Grade 1 race in his last year on the track, was donated to Old Friends courtesy of his owner, Tom Egan GEORGETOWN, KY – Nov. 10, 2023 – Red Knight, a multiple graded-stakes millionaire has been retired to Old Friends, the Thoroughbred Retirement farm in Georgetown, Ky. The 9-year-old chestnut […]

GEORGETOWN, Ky. – Oct. 31, 2023 – Old Friends, the Thoroughbred retirement farm in Georgetown, Ky., is saddened to announce that 10-year old Tom’s Ready, a multiple graded-stakes winner who earned over a million dollars in his racing career, was euthanized on Monday, Oct. 30, 2023 at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Ky. due to […]

Old Friends Farm is asking for blanket donations going into winter. You can find out more about donating in the WKYT story here.

Stormy Liberal is one of a select number of Breeders’ Cup winners to repeat the feat. Always dead game, the former claimer’s final half-dozen career victories had connections and fans regularly holding their collective breaths as his biggest margin was just a neck. The tough and classy veteran raced on three continents, earned an Eclipse […]

GEORGETOWN, KY – Oct. 17, 2023 – Old Friends, the Thoroughbred Retirement farm in Georgetown, Ky., is pleased to announce that multiple stakes winner, Spooky Channel, arrived at the farm on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023 to enjoy his retirement. The chestnut gelding comes to Old Friends courtesy of his owners, NBS Stables. “We are grateful to John Ballantyne and his […]

Our Timely Writer interment and Fall Fundraiser events that were scheduled for October 16th are being postponed. Timely Writer’s remains may not be here on time. Tickets sold for the Fall Fundraiser will be refunded. We apologize for any confusion. For Information call (502) 863-1775. Old Friends Farm 1841 Paynes Depot Rd Georgetown, KY 40324

GEORGETOWN, Ky. (WKYT) – Former Governor Brereton Jones, lay in state at the Kentucky Capitol on Monday. He was passionate about several causes, but none closer to his heart, than the equine industry. “There was nobody ever in the history of the horse racing business in Kentucky that has meant more to these horses, than […]

GEORGETOWN, Ky. – Sept. 25, 2023 – Anyone who ever knew Brereton C. Jones can stop reading now. I won’t be telling you anything new. He was smart, kind and compassionate. And that is a rare trifecta. But he was so much more than that. Nearly two decades ago, when I first started Old Friends, I made […]

Thoroughbred Charities of America (TCA) announced today that grants totaling over $821,000 were awarded this year. 75 organizations were approved for a grant including 45 aftercare organizations, 20 backstretch and farm worker programs, six equine-assisted therapy organizations, three Thoroughbred incentive programs, and one research organization. Grant recipients can be found on www.tca.org. Over the last 33 […]