Fasig-Tipton gives $50K to rebuild at Old Friends
GEORGETOWN, KY – Old Friends founder and President Michael Blowen announced today that Fasig-Tipton, through its subsidiary Blue Horse Charities, has donated $50,000 toward the cost of rebuilding a barn destroyed in a fast-moving fire. The horse charity’s “hospital barn” burned to the ground last weekend after the roof caught fire. Two horses, Alphabet Soup and Archie’s Echo, were evacuated minutes before the structure became fully engulfed. No horses or people were injured in the blaze. Soon after the conflagration, Old Friends began fundraising to build a state-of-the-art, fireproof structure. Today Blowen excitedly announced that with the Fasig-Tipton/Blue Horse Charities […]
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Chubba was a low claimer before he was a star
An unassuming racehorse, of whom it was once said lacked the gumption to make a “menacing bid” for victory, is now channeling his inner champion as a sport horse. Long Hill Chub, who finished out his short and unimpressive career in the low claimers at Suffolk Downs in 2009, has become something of a wonder horse in the years since. Long Hill Chub Show name: Chubba Sire: Storm of Angels Dam:Chubette, by Fountain of Gold Foal date: May 29, 2006“I’ve taken several horses off the track in my life, but Chubba is just a cool bean,” says owner and rider […]
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The stars sparkle in the OTTB family tree
By DENNY EMERSON — You won’t get very far in any study of the modern thoroughbred without coming across the Storm Cat line of elite racehorses, and, frequently, his son, Giant’s Causeway. Storm Cat was by Storm Bird, by Northern Dancer. His dam, Terlingua, was by Secretariat, by Bold Ruler. Storm Cat, then, was descended from the Nearctic sire line of Nearco on top, and from the Nasrullah sire line of Nearco on the bottom. Storm Cat stood, for several years for a whopping $500,000.00 stud fee. You heard that right. Half a million dollars to breed to Storm Cat, […]
