Blowen wins lifetime achievement award
In the large waterside reception room of the Danversport Yacht Club, Michael Blowen returned to the Suffolk Downs racing colony Thursday night to accept honors for his heroic work providing dignified retirements for ex-racehorse Thoroughbreds. As a crowd of 300 people looked on, Blowen was presented with the New England Turf Writers Association’s Sam McCracken Memorial Award at the 69th annual Awards Dinner. The organization’s top honor recognizes Blowen’s pioneering efforts to found and maintain Old Friends, a racehorse retirement in Kentucky, with his wife Diane White. As the couple has built up the sprawling retirement facility, which currently houses […]
