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Record-setting Rapid Redux retired to Old Friends

Rapid Redux, the six-year-old Pleasantly Perfect gelding who never won a stakes race but set a modern racing record with 22 consecutive victories,...

Old Friends to benefit from Labor Day festivities at River Downs

River Downs racetrack will celebrate "Old Friends Day" on Labor Day with a silent auction and other festivities to support the work of...

The rescue of Alydar's daughter

On May 21st, a trailer pulled into a farm in Carlisle, Kentucky, carrying a trio of horses who had been sent, sight unseen, to a farmer who thought...

Old Friends' Michael Blowen to be honored by MSPCA for his work on behalf of thoroughbred horses

Michael Blowen, the former Boston Globe film critic who lefta desk jobto dedicate his life to the rescue and care of former thoroughbred racehorses...

Graded stakes winning son of Secretariat, Tinners Way, retired to Old Friends

Tinners Way, the final foal of Secretariat and a two-time winner of the Pacific Classic Stakes (gr. 1) was retired to Old Friends on Monday, Sept....

National Turf Writers honor Old Friends with 2010 Joe Palmer Award

The National Turf Writers Association announced its annual awards on Friday, September 10, 2010. Topping the list is Old Friends, the Thoroughbred...

Remembering Academy Award, graded stakes winning son of Secretariat

They say bad things happen in threes. Well, that probably could also be said of sad things… It' been a tough couple of months at Old...

Academy Award, one of Secretariat's last sons, dies at Old Friends

Barely seven months after his heralded arrival at Old Friends, the 24-year-old stallion, Academy Award, died peacefully at the Georgetown, Kentucky...