A best friend to horses
Michael Blowen didn’t set out to oversee a Shangri-La for ex-racehorses in the Kentucky bluegrass. He set out to teach film at Emerson College in Boston. When that didn’t work out, he went to work for the Boston Globe as an entertainment writer, and somewhere along the way horses got into his blood the way ink seeps into a newspaperman’s veins. It all began fairly innocuously. “One day my editor Robert Taylor, who was a brilliant editor who made my mediocre prose something worth reading, invited me to go to the track,” Blowen says. “I was 31, and up to […]
