File – Michael Blowen prepares for taking High in Dallas out-of his stands towards the Afton farm close Halfway, Ky., . Blowen’s love for horses extended above and beyond the latest racetrack and you will stimulated him towards creating a middle-life field as the inventor out-of a pension farm in Kentucky, where more mature thoroughbreds you are going to purchase its leftover many years inside dignity and you may security – long after its making months had been over. (AP Photos/James Crisp, File)