NE Turf Writers to fete Blowen for life’s work
Michael Blowen never gives up. Not on horses or his friends. In good times, when his famed Kentucky horse sanctuary was aglow with sparkling fundraisers among the celebrity set, or in bad, when financial debt nearly threatened the very survival of his sprawling farm, Blowen got up everyday to greet fans of Old Friends, and usher sightseers on tours. He kept up the pace even during the worst of days, this past spring, when he announced Old Friends was in financial trouble and needed to raise $200,000 in a matter of months. He did not falter. He appealed to friends […]
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Living the dream with Dream Potential
By the time Brenda Casey turned 47, she had four children, a happy marriage, and a room in her house virtually overflowing with objects devoted to a dream that never came true. Each year, she added something to that room. Maybe a painting or a pillow, or some other cherished trinket depicting the classic scene of a huntsman in red, surrounded by hounds, and all those beautiful horses gathered before the hunt. In these scenes she saw something that excited her for reasons she can’t even now put her finger on, and that she never thought she’d experience. “After I […]
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Billy L powers to Grand Prix heights
Aloof and lame, Billy L was about the rudest horse Lindsey Fletcher ever tried to walk onto a trailer. “He was such a jerk! It took three of us to get him to load and at one point I thought, ‘I’m at a racetrack loading this lame racehorse onto a trailer. What am I doing?’ But sometimes you just have to go with your gut.” What nobody else could see at the time was that the racehorse who was lame on one side and gimpy on the other also possessed the true ‘look of eagles’ emblematic of the Thoroughbred breed. […]
