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Tag Archives: Akindale Thoroughbred Rescue

Can A Love of Animals and a Love of Horse Racing Co-exist?

That’s the question that producer Doug Tribou and host Bill Littlefield asked me a couple of weeks ago, and over the course of an hour in the NPR studio in New York, I tried to answer it. For obvious reasons, the full hour of conversation didn’t make it into the segment, but some of what…

May 30, 2015 in Animal welfare, NPR.

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.

New York Horsemen “Take The Lead” In Thoroughbred Retirement

Frisky Cat’s mother wasn’t much of a racehorse, but his sire, Tale of the Cat, was a multiple graded stakes winner, as was his damsire, Dynaformer.  It seemed reasonable to expect that Frisky Cat, foaled in 2009, might be a moderate success on the racetrack. But, not infrequently, even horses with good bloodlines don’t find…

January 31, 2014 in Brooklyn Backstretch.

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