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Akindale Thoroughbred Rescue

Evening Attire’s Invite To His Derby Party for Akindale Thoroughbred Rescue

Akindale Thoroughbred Rescue doesn’t boast any Derby winners—or maybe even any Derby runners–but its equine family of 150 stakes winners and claimers invite you to the farm’s first Derby party, a fundraiser at Madava Farms in Dover Plains, NY. The home of 100% organic Crown Maple syrup, the beautiful Madava Farms is a working farm…

April 28, 2015 in Akindale Thoroughbred Rescue, Kentucky Derby 2015.

A Grain Drive for Akindale, to Celebrate Evening Attire

I’m a little late in wishing Evening Attire a happy 17th birthday–the big day was Valentine’s Day, two days before his namesake race was scheduled to be run. Bad weather scuttled that, so the Evening Attire–formerly the Aqueduct Handicap, which this guy won in 2002–is being run today. And in his honor, his retirement home,…

February 22, 2015 in Akindale Thoroughbred Rescue, racing charities.

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