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Bonnie's Poker to
Old Friends Bonnie's Poker, famous for her champion son Silver Charm, will join Creator and Sunshine Forever at the Old Friends retirement facility today. The twenty-two year old daughter of Poker was the issue of a dispute earlier this year involving owner Kristie Jakeman and National City Bank. A settlement was reached, and Bonnie's Poker was donated to Old Friends. Michael Blowen at Old Friends said that he hopes Bonnie's Poker will be a tourist attraction and that all of her fans will be able to visit her. |
Old Friends Make Some
New Friends
by Amanda Saunders
According to Old Friends, an organization created to
bring home retired American champions from overseas, at 9:46am on Monday
morning, champions Sunshine Forever and Creator stepped off a Sallee Van
at Hurstland Farm, their new and very permanent home. Both retired stallions
were adorned in brand new donated leather halters and settled into their
new stalls without any problems, and later were let out into separate
paddocks where they were allowed to graze and roll to their hearts content.
They will both be in quarantine for another month yet, but they are home
at last...safe and sound.
Sunshine Forever, a 19-year-old son of Roberto out of Outward Sunshine,
is a winner of just over $2 million and has won such races as the Man
o'War Stakes, the Budweiser International Stakes, and the Turf Classic
Invitational Stakes while placing in the Breeders' Cup Turf. 18-year-old
Creator was actually not an American runner, but a two-time French Group
1 winner and a son of American stallion Mill Reef out of Chalon. Both
stallions were sent to Japan upon retirement and have been pensioned upon
their arrival in the United States.
Among the horses that Old Friends is working on bringing back to the United
States is Criminal Type, multiple Grade 1 winner and 1990 Horse Of The
Year, who is currently standing stud in Japan.
