Michael Blowen, founder and president of Old Friends, announced late yesterday (Oct. 5) that Amazombie, the 2011 Sprint Champion and Eclipse Award winner that was retired from racing earlier this year, will be pensioned at the Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Center in Georgetown, Kentucky.

It was announced earlier this week that multiple graded stakes winner Game on Dude will be sent to Old Friends, and it's been determined that the superstars will make their cross-country journey together in the coming weeks via H.E. Tex Sutton Forwarding Company, LLC.

Details on the arrival of both Amazombie and Game on Dude will be announced shortly.

An 8-year-old California-bred, Amazombie was campaigned by the partnership of Tom Sanford and leading Southern California trainer William Spawr. A gelded son of Northern Afleet, Amazombie achieved his first stakes win at age five in the 2011 Sunshine Millions Sprint at Santa Anita with Mike Smith aboard