has accomplished everything he set out to
do. His Diamond Creek Farm has farms in
Kentucky and Pennsylvania, has seven high-
class stallions, 75 broodmares and 22 race-
horses. He'll never have the mammoth num-
bers that come out of the assembly line at
iconic Hanover Shoe Farms, but he runs an
operation that has so much quantity and so
much quality that it is one of the gold stan-
dards in the Standardbred business.
"The goal was always to be where we are
now and I want to be even bigger," Bowden,
now 37, said. "We want to have stallions not
only in Pennsylvania. We expanded to Ohio
this year and the plan is to expand into New
York, Ontario, New Jersey and to have a ma-
jor, major stallion operation."
But where will he find the time?
That might be the only thing that can
stop him as the man who admits "I already
have too much on my plate" recently set
his sights on the thoroughbred breeding in-
dustry. Bowden doesn't envision Diamond
Creek Thoroughbreds ever becoming as big
as his harness operation, but he's not going
into this on a whim or just as a side hobby.
