A new TDN multimedia longform piece, The Education of Bobby Flay, is now available on the TDN website.
Lucas Marquardt visits with Flay as he watches his horses train at Palm Meadows, cooks dinner at his NYC restaurant Gato, and mulls over his equine holdings in his Manhattan office.
“Looking back, Bobby Flay acknowledges the characteristics that made him a great chef and media personality—the ability to act quickly on instinct, a love of the melee-wouldn't translate into success as a horse owner and breeder. Not in the long run, at least. 'When I went to a sale, I just couldn't sit on my hands,' Flay says. 'I would spend $100,000 here, $200,000 there, and was really just throwing darts. But all that money adds up. Why not save it for a truly special horse? My friends would spend half their time at auctions looking for me to make sure I wasn't buying something.'”
The piece offers video clips, extensive photos, and Marquardt's exceptional prose.
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