Old Friends News
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Join us this Memorial Day
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Monday, May 20, 2013
See WKYT TV's news coverage of Calvin Borel's recent visit to Old Friends!
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Meet Calvin Borel May 20th 1 pm to 4 pm
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Monday, May 06, 2013
Lovely article (see page 14-15) By Denise Steffanus. Talkin' Tinner's Way, too!
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Sunday, May 05, 2013
by Ashley Strickland of cnn.com
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Press Releases
Join us this Memorial Day
See WKYT TV's news coverage of Calvin Borel's recent visit to Old Friends!
Meet Calvin Borel May 20th 1 pm to 4 pm
Lovely article (see page 14-15) By Denise Steffanus. Talkin' Tinner's Way, too!
Thursday
is Old Friends Day at Country Boy Brewing. Beer and horses. It can't
get much...
by Ashley Strickland of cnn.com
The 2013 Ferdinand’s Ball was a great success with Peyton Siva as host by Sandy Dolan of Louisville.com
Old Friends 9th Annual Homecoming Event
May 5th at 3:00 pm. Come to...
We have events in three states and five cities in just four days!
Ferdinand's Ball...
PRESS RELEASE
LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Woodford Reserve®, the...
The 4th Annual Ferdinand’s Ball Derby gala to be held at the Muhammad Ali Center
Kroger Cares about Old Friends! We now have
rechargeable Kroger Gift Cards. Kroger will donate...
Old Friends on Instagram!
Horseback Announces 12 Worthy Causes for the 12 Days of Christmas
New story about Old Friend's retiree Our Revival by Stan Grossfeld of the Boston Globe
A homebred for owner Sanford Bacon, Dancin’ Renee is the New York-bred daughter of Distinctive Pro out of three-time New York Broodmare of the Year Lolli Lucka Lolli.
In Support Of Thoroughbred Aftercare, Daily Racing Form Unveils
A Special Commemorative Old...
Breeders and stud farm owners in Kentucky looked at Michael Blowen like he was crazy when he first pitched his idea to them a decade ago: Open a retirement farm for pensioned stallions and make the most famous of those retirees a tourist attraction for racing fans and horse lovers.
Lovable loser Zippy Chippy could win big in retirement
By Bruce Schreiner, Associated...
By Greg Kocher — Lexington Herald Leader
GEORGETOWN — For all of you who were the last to be...
Rapid Redux, the extraordinary racehorse who holds the modern North American record of 22...
New York's Magnificent Oheka Castle to Host the Inaugural Old Friends Belmont Ball
Our good friends Tim Wilson and Nick Newman are developing videos for each of our horses. They have completed Fortunate Prospect, Creator, Sunshine Forever, Hidden Lake, Kiri's Clown, Ogygian,...
Old Friends works so well for the industry at large not because it makes people want to support Old Friends but because it makes people want to support retired Thoroughbreds.
http://www.oldfriendsequine.org/pdfs/BHarticle.pdf
It takes a village to raise a child and,...
Chris Poynter's terrific article in the Courier-Journal
“Final Days for a Hall of Famer,” is
the now Eclipse Award winning article written by Bill Mooney, which
appeared in the January 07 edition of Post Time USA. The article won in
the 2007 Media Eclipse Award for Writing in the News/Commentary
category. Bill is a dear friend to both the horses and humans at Old
Friends. He is a racing historian and writer. Bill.....congratulations!
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Our friend, Bill Nack wrote the following story about Old Friends a year or so ago for Life Magazine.
Michael Blowen, the eclectic movie critic of the Boston Globe, was in love with the horses. He wanted to learn everything about them, so that he might cash in more tickets. He begged legendary trainer Carlos Figueroa for a job on the backstretch. Blowen expected to be paid. Figueroa looked shocked.
Old Friends' founder and president Michael Blowen discovered his unique bond with Thoroughbreds while working as a volunteer groom at Suffolk Downs during the 1990s, eventually buying and racing a small stable of claiming-level horses before leaving his position as Arts & Entertainment reporter and film critic for The Boston Globe to become operations director for the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation....
It has been a good year for Old Friends the Thoroughbred retirement project headquartered at Hurstland Farm in Midway Kentucky Since January its roster of pensioned racehorses has increased from...
They said a few words over Fraise recently, a right proper send-off for a well-liked horse.
Near Midway, at the horse retirement home on Hurstland Farm called Old Friends, the cremated remains of Fraise received their final respects and some flowers, too...
Charm comes in all colors. On July 23 at Hopewell Farm, it was silver. An anonymous donor contributed a halter from the 1997 Derby winner who now stands proudly at Three Chimneys Farm. After spirited bidding between myself and Ryan Sigley, Sissy’s son, he won the coveted halter. I was crushed. It was, in large part, my party and I really wanted that halter more than I would have admitted....
LEXINGTON, Ky. - When a thoroughbred stallion abroad has outlived his breeding usefulness, anything can happen to him, even if he's a Kentucky Derby winner.
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