TDN: Hap-Pily Ever After
“It was just another day making sales calls. About eight years ago, I walked into a Farmstead Veterinary clinic in rural Indiana and looked at their wall-mounted cork board–the kind with tacked-up...
View ArticleHappiest Retirees Podcast: Michael Blowen
“Michael Blowen loves “being old.” Those are his words, not mine! After years as a film critic for the Boston Globe, he snapped. In the middle of an awful movie, he stood up and yelled at the other...
View ArticleOld Friends Blog: Saying Goodbye to Riva Way
We are saddened by the passing of Old Friends’ longest-time Thoroughbred resident, Riva Way, who has lived at Old Friends in Kentucky since 2005—almost twenty years. On the track, Riva was just a...
View ArticleOld Friends’ Stakes Winning Mare Hi Dubai Euthanized
GEORGETOWN, Ky. – Aug. 26, 2024 – Old Friends, the Thoroughbred retirement facility in Georgetown, Ky., is saddened to report that Hi Dubai, 24, a stakes winning sister to Fantastic Light, was...
View ArticleOld Friends to Host Keeneland Library Exhibit The Heart of the Turf: Racing’s...
GEORGETOWN, Ky. – Sept. 17, 2024 – Old Friends is pleased to announce that it will host The Heart of the Turf: Racing’s Black Pioneers, a traveling exhibit sponsored by the Keeneland Association and...
View ArticleBig Brown, Winner of the 2008 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes Joins Old...
GEORGETOWN, KY – Sept. 30, 2024 – Old Friends, the Thoroughbred retirement farm in Georgetown, Ky., is extremely pleased to announce the arrival of 2008 Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness Stakes (G1)...
View ArticleOld Friends Welcomes Cozmic One, First Born Foal of Zenyatta
GEORGETOWN, KY. – Oct. 2, 2024 – Old Friends, the Thoroughbred retirement farm in Georgetown, Ky., is pleased to announce the arrival of Cozmic One, the first born foal of 2010 Horse of the Year and...
View ArticleAlphabet Soup: ‘Honest to a fault – when he was right, he ran his heart out,...
“Alphabet Soup didn’t have to be a star. If you’d have asked him, and he’d been able to answer, maybe he didn’t even want to be a star. There was no particular destiny attached to his lineage, no...
View ArticleOld Friends Welcomes Multiple-Stakes Winner Noble Drama
GEORGETOWN, KY – Oct. 31, 2024 – Old Friends, the Thoroughbred retirement farm in Georgetown, Ky., is extremely pleased to announce the arrival of multiple-stakes winner Noble Drama. The 9-year old...
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