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At 28, Silver Charm rules as oldest living Derby winner

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GEORGETOWN, Ky. – The paved road on which visitors make their entrance bisects paddocks that this time of year – having been fed by rain in preceding months – are a shade of green that make your eyes hurt. Inside those prominent paddocks are horses who won major stakes and millions of dollars. There are many horses like that here at Old Friends Farm, many too who weren’t famous at all.

But all that’s missing from this particular entrance is a red carpet, for at the end of the paved road, atop a hill, past a picnic area where a pleasant wind rustles the branches of the trees, is a paddock in which resides a celebrity, the horse who now reigns as the oldest living Kentucky Derby winner.

Read more at Daily Racing Form.

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