smaller level than we're playing at now.
With stallions and the quality and quantity
of the horses we have and operations in two
states, it would have been impossible at 24
to do that. So we started small, him letting
me make these mistakes and then my figur-
ing out how to stand on my own two feet.
I've come along way."
In 2016, Adam Bowden and his wife went
to Ireland, where Diamond Creek has spon-
sored a harness race. While there, they
decided to visit Coolmore and were over-
whelmed by the hospitality they were
shown by the heads of that farm and their
willingness to help. Their first ever thor-
oughbred purchases were two mares they
bought privately from Coolmore and that
is where, today, they board their Europe-
an mares. He says Coolmore stud manager
Eddie Fitzpatrick remains one of his most
trusted confidants in the thoroughbred
business.
As he grew more comfortable with the
thoroughbred business, the younger
Bowden went on to buy six more mares,
shopping both in Europe and in the U.S. He'll
