GEORGETOWN, KY— This Sunday, Old Friends, the Thoroughbred retirement facility based in Georgetown, KY will welcome new retiree The Wicked North to
its 92-acres Dream Chase Farm. Owner Annette Bacola has kindly donated her Eclipse-winning
champion to the facility where he will be permanently pensioned.

The Wicked North (Far North–Wicked Witchcraft by Good Behaving) most recently stood at
True North Farm in Versailles, KY. He was pension in 2007, however, due to health problems.
Prior to that he stood at The Stallion Park in Millbrook, NY.

By winning 8 of 17 starts he earned over $1.2 million on the track. His stakes victories include
the G3 Bing Crosby Stakes, the G1 Oaklawn H., and the G1 California Stakes, where he set a
track record for 1 1/8 miles when he won in 1:46.68 over the Hollywood Park course. In 1994,
at age 5, he earned the Eclipse Award for Champion Older Horse.

Bacola, the former racing commissioner in Michigan, resides in Versailles and will be providing a stipend for her horse.

The 19-year-old chestnut stallion has been at Kentucky’s Caddel Equine Therapy Center, owned
and operated by Steve and Linda Caddel, where he has been recovering from colic surgery.

“We’re so honored to have the Wicked North here at Old Friends,” said founder and president
Michael Blowen. “We can’t thank Annette enough for choosing us. We know he’ll enjoy his retirement
here and we’re looking forward to introducing him to our many visitors and patrons.”

Both the press and the public are welcome to attend his arrival on Sunday Oct. 12. Salle Vans, the transportation specialist that have shipped many Old Friends retirees free of charge, will pick up the
stallion at Caddel and deliver him to Old Friends.