by Barbara Newtown. When Mia Manzanares was a freshman at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, she tore her ACL while practicing for the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association competitions. Continue Reading →
By Barbara Newtown. Trey Ellis has always had a race training business in Louisiana. In 2018, he started his two-year-old racing Quarter Horses as usual at Louisiana Downs in Shreveport. Continue Reading →
By Barbara Newtown. In 2010 a group of professional Thoroughbred breeders and owners banded together to start a centrally-located, first-class Louisiana site for auctioning Thoroughbred racing stock. Equine Sales Company Continue Reading →
By Barbara Newtown. Justify, the 2018 Triple Crown champion, has shattered a 136-year-old curse: In 1882, Apollo, unraced as a two-year-old, won the Kentucky Derby. Until Justify came along, 61 Continue Reading →
Southern California was burning at the end of 2017… People lost their homes, their livelihoods, their lives. People know what to do when their world is aflame: flee. Or, Continue Reading →
by Barbara Newtown. Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Farms held an auction of racing memorabilia, fine art, and exclusive tours at 3 PM on September 10th, 2017, in the Kentucky Room Continue Reading →
