Stakes winner Flick euthanized at Old Friends
GEORGETOWN, Ky.—Stakes winner Flick has died. The 24-year-old gelding, who resided at Old Friends, the Thoroughbred Retirement Farm in Georgetown, KY, was euthanized Friday morning due to complications from colic. Michael Blowen, founder and president of Old Friends, made the announcement Jan. 8. Bred in England by Side Hill Stud, Flick (Kris (GB) – Thakhayr (IRE), Sadler’s Wells) had three starts in England before coming to the U.S. near the end of his 2-year-old season. He made his first start for new owner Judith Carmel at Hollywood Park, placing 5th. Flick continued beating good horses at major West Coast tracks […]
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Blinded painting horse is ‘out of the woods’
Metro Meteor, the famous painting Thoroughbred struck by sudden-onset blindness last month, is well on his way to recovery. Metro’s owner Ron Krajewski reports that the 13-year-old off-track Thoroughbred has steadily improved since the animal lost vision in both eyes; life is returning to normal for Metro and his human family. “He’s getting around pretty well now, and if I didn’t know he had eyesight problems, I couldn’t tell there was anything wrong,” Krajewski says, noting that Metro was turned out with his pasture buddies this week. “I think he’s out of the woods,” Krajewski adds with audible relief in his […]
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Horses helped him prosper after 2 prison stays
A twice-convicted Virginia man who once cried in his cell with despair, found his path to the American Dream—self-respect, love, a thriving business—soon after he seized hold of a beautiful Thoroughbred. And that horse, a grandson of the great Secretariat, helped the inmate right his own ship and sail toward a better day. The life transformation began for two-time offender Tamio Holmes of Louisiana the day he stepped up to the horse trailer bearing bay racehorse Covert Action. The door opened. Covert walked down the ramp. And Holmes stepped up to take hold of the lead rope and walk with the […]
