We all know it’s a small world, but it turns out the horse world is even smaller. This week as I walked into the Old Friends gift shop, I came face to face with an old friend of my own from Pennsylvania. Marta was in Kentucky for the Rolex Three-Day Event and came to visit [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘General’
April 21, 2008
Sunday April 20, 2008
Sunday April 20, 2008
Welcome to another Sunday at Old Friends. Today was a busy day at the farm. The morning started out with blue skies, sunshine and a light breeze, which was a joy since all week the weather reports had forecast rain. By later this afternoon it rained a little, but no one seemed [...]
April 13, 2008
Sunday at Old Friends
Welcome to Sunday at Old Friends! I am lucky enough to be able to spend Sundays giving tours at the farm and I am going to try to post a weekly entry on the blog. Hopefully I’ll be able to write a little about the horses, give our out-of-town friends an update on how everyone [...]
February 14, 2008
February Freeze, Eclipse Awards
The weather for the past two days has been very nasty, freezing rain on top of snow yesterday, snow on top of ice today. But we can’t let the boys and girls wait for their breakfasts, so Michael and I bundled up and trudged out into the elements to deliver feed and lots of carrots [...]
February 5, 2008
Santa Anita et cetera
It’s weirdly warm here today, nearly 70 and stormy. Any minute we’ll probably be back to single digit temperatures, but meanwhile we’re enjoying the unpredictable Kentucky weather. Spring is in the air. It’s breeding season, and while most of our older stallions have seen it all, done it all and are pretty blase about the [...]
December 5, 2007
“Moneigh” Day at Old Friends
Mary Simons, aka “Moneigh” Mary, arrived at Old Friends last Monday with her painting supplies to assist our dowager mare Bonnie’s Poker, dam of the great Silver Charm – or the “other” Silver Charm, as we think of him at Old Friends – create a masterpiece. At first Bonnie wasn’t in a creative mood. She took off as soon [...]
December 2, 2007
Bonnie’s Poker and Kudos
Bonnie’s Poker and Kudos, originally uploaded by oldfriendsblog.
November 18, 2007
Murder at Old Friends?
After Virginia Smith toured Old Friends she was inspired to write a romantic mystery loosely based on what she saw at the farm. “Bluegrass Peril” unfolds at Out to Pasture, a fictional Thoroughbred retirement facility. When founder Neal Haldeman is murdered suspicion falls upon his assistant, divorced single mother of twin boys Becky Dennison. Enter [...]
November 18, 2007
Welcome Williamstown
Williamstown arrived at Old Friends Tuesday morning via TLC Horse Transport. He had been at the University of Minnesota, facing an uncertain future, when we received a call from Lisa at Frank Aubrey Insurance in Lexington informing us that he was available for retirement. Williamstown, by Seattle Slew out of Winter Sparkle, is a multiple [...]
