Thanks
He ran a great race maybe he could have got there if anyone ran with the winner.
But who can complain about a ten year old getting a second in a Grade II race.
We love him

I meant to post this earlier, but I went and visited the great Black Tie Affair, sire of everybody's favorite 10yo gelding, a couple weekends ago. The guy looks pretty good in his stable at O'Sullivan Farm in Charles Town, and clearly rules the roost along with Prized, another former Breeders Cup winner. His coast is barely grey anymore, but the horse still has perfect conformation and looks like he could go out and win on the lead at 10f tomorrow.

Not on Evening Attire per se, but I thought fans of Evening Attire would like to know how his famous father is doing these days.

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/sto...date=6/25/2008

:)

Yes DITTO, DITTO, DITTO!!!
Win your in....
But will you actually bring him to CA and synthetic?

have a great safe trip!

APPLAUSE, APPLAUSE, APPLAUSE!!!!!!!!

Magnificent win, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!

Go Old Gray boy, your fans love you EVENING ATTIRE!!!!!!!!

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GREAT WIN!!! and track record too !!
CONGRATS ! ALL !

The old man keeps on spoiling us. It will be a very sad day when he finally retires. I doubt if he even wants to retire.

I know my family and I were thrilled by the way he ran yesterday. After the race I was amazed that he wasn't overly sweating or looking very tired. We had a few discussions on Friday and on Saturday about scratching him because of the heat but as Pat Kelly said if the heat was going to bother him he would not run. If Attire doesn't like the conditions he will not stretch out. That is why at ten years old he is still running. He is very smart and knows how to take care of himself.

Congratulations on a great run by the "Old Man".

What a good boy he is!

:)

Love this horse! :)

I was hoping we would have a chance to run Evening Attire in Saratoga but I just read the new condition book and there is no race for him. The only long race at the end of the meet is a 9F, The Woodward. They do not plan on running any 10F races for older horsesfor the entire meet. I asked a number of times if they would write a long race and was always told yes. I guess NYRA thinks that Saratoga fans do not want to watch old horses running long in Saratoga.
Maybe next year or the following year when he is 11 or 12 they may write a 10F or longer race race.

I'm glad I'm not the only one the Racing Office says yes to, but really means no, when I ask them to put on a race.

Nice little piece on everyones favorite gentleman...

http://www.st-publishing.com/cms/ind...=431&Itemid=73

nice article, thanks for posting.

:)

http://racing.bloodhorse.com/article/46584.htm

Good luck tomorrow!!! :tro:

scratched?:confused:

Going to the JCGC next Saturday?

He shipped to Monmouth this morning. When he got to his stall, they took off the traveling bandages; Pat noticed a little filling on his leg near a cut. The cut was from two days ago. He walked fine but we decided to be very cautious and scratch him. He got back to Belmont at about 1PM and the vet said he thought it may be a small infection from the cut. He was treated with topical medicine and will be checked again in the morning.

How's he doing today?

Hope he's happy and feeling good. :)

Reported in DRF this evening (9/22)

Evening Attire suffers a setback

Evening Attire was forced to scratch from Sunday's Point Given Stakes at Monmouth Park due to filling in a leg, trainer Pat Kelly said. The filling was detected after the horse arrived at Monmouth Park on Sunday morning.

Kelly said it would take a few days before he knew for sure how serious a problem the 10-year-old gelding may or may not have.

"We scratched to be cautious," Kelly said Monday morning at his Belmont Park barn. "We're checking it out. We won't know anything for another 48 or 72 hours. He's not running anytime soon. He's here, we're dealing with it."

Evening Attire was coming off an 8 1/4-length victory in the Greenwood Cup at Philadelphia Park on July 19 and seemed to have found new life going 1 1/2 miles. Overall, he has won 15 of 69 starts and earned $2,977,130 for owners Joseph and Mary Grant and T.J. Kelly.

Please tell me that its not true that this grand old warrior has been retired. If true how will his loss be filled. Certainly not by any of the greedy owners who are always thinking of $$$ when they have a top notch horse like this magnificient horse. Owners are always thinking about themselves and not of all of us fans. I am still suprised that Curlin is still running, although I am sure that if he shows up at Santa Anita he will be retired. It would be nice to see if he could become that all time leading money winner of all time, correct me if I am wrong but hasn't Big Brown's owner already said that the Breeders' Cup Classic will be his last start.

Excerpt, TT...

http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/rac...e-1-races.aspx


Aqueduct’s 82-day winter/spring meet opens on New Year’s Day and runs through April 26. The $65,000 Aqueduct Handicap has been renamed the Evening Attire in honor of the 2002 winner of the race and will be run on January 3. :tro: :) :cool:

Excellent..Congrats to Norfolk and the other connections...well deserved

well earned, congrats to all involved.

I know the actual birthdays of a total of two horses...

EA is one of them.

Happy birthday, good boy. :)

http://mysite.verizon.net/vze4gg36/e...ttire/id9.html

yea, and i know your birthday;)

... cause I share it with such a great guy (and a sexy one too)? :p