Our partnerships are started with an expense budget for each horse.  If all goes well one or more of the horses will have some success before the reserves are used up.  If not there will need to be a cash call to fund the partnership.  Our strategy is simple.  We know that partners don’t mind paying cash calls on stakes horses BUT don’t call for cash on a bunch of less expensive horses.  If horses have to be sold, even at a loss, to fund the partnership, expect that we will do so in a responsible manner.

Once we have decided to sell a horse or run a horse in a claimer, we continue to follow the career of the horse.  Several of our partners are very active in finding “forever homes” for our horses and to that end we have established the Bourbon Lane Stable paddock at Old Friends Farm in Georgetown, KY.  Any Bourbon Lane Stable horse, past or present, who is ineligible for a second career after racing, is welcomed to be retired at Old Friends.  We also support the Thoroughbred Charities of America, where Mike sits on the Board of Directors.  The TCA donates hundreds of thousands of dollars each year to QUALIFIED aftercare farms and organizations.  In particular, we sponsor events at RRP, the “Retired Racehorse Project” and at CARMA.

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