Evening Attire

[Heels1989]

The old man gets it done!!!

[sumitas]

Go Baby GO !!!

He's always dressed to thrill.

[azerica]

Gotta love the old guys......

[pmacdaddy]

EA broke poorly (as I expected), Barcola had it fairly easy on lead (as I hoped). And Evening Attire nails him on the line. Good for the old guy!

Not so good for me...

[ALostTexan]

Graded Stakes at 9. Awesome!!!

[letswastemoney]

damn he's old

[Downthestretch55]

My only selection for the day. Way to go Evening Attire!!! You beautiful old warrior!

[Danzig]

damn he's old

still in his prime.

[azerica]

Did you notice his birthday is Valentine's Day? I just thought it was interesting...

[miraja2]

Did you notice his birthday is Valentine's Day? I just thought it was interesting...
My birthday is Valentine's Day too.
I am also past my prime.
I guess I should start cheering for this horse.

[deltagulf]

me to past prime:D

go you old man evening attire

[Theatrical]

Didn't get to see the race, but I'd love to convey my congratulations to Evening Attire. Yeahhh, baby. :D

[TheSpyder]

One of my favorites. What a race horse!

Spyder

[azerica]

My birthday is Valentine's Day too.
I am also past my prime.
I guess I should start cheering for this horse.

I don't think there is such a thing as past your time unless you think you are. Cheer for the old guy, and when you think you are past it, look at what he did today at his age. That will change your mind...:)

[Kasept]

Graded Stakes at 9. Awesome!!!
And he won this race at age 3... 3!

Huge congrats to the Grants and Kellys... Just great.

[Dunbar]

And he won this race at age 3... 3!

Huge congrats to the Grants and Kellys... Just great.

I wonder what the record is for number of years between winning the same graded race?!

--Dunbar

[my miss storm cat]

Cheers to the old guy... sorry i missed the race.

[Merlinsky]

That makes my week. Way to go fella. I'm so proud of him.

[horseofcourse]

I wonder what the record is for number of years between winning the same graded race?!

--Dunbar

I was thinking the same thing. I'm sure someone out there knows this obscure fact. If he didn't set the record today for that, I would have to think he is in the top 2 or 3. My guess would be he stands alone here. You don't see a heckuva lot of grades stakes horses even running 6 years let alone winning the same race 6 years apart.

[fpsoxfan]

I was at a basketball tourney for most of the day, but they were loading in the gate when I got home. I didn't have a dime invested, but my buddies and I were cheering for him. That was pretty exciting!!

[Kasept]

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o122/kasept/eve.jpg

[Norfolk]

And he won this race at age 3... 3!

Huge congrats to the Grants and Kellys... Just great.

Do you think we can start a campaign to have NYRA bring back the 10F Saratoga Breeders Cup so he can run in at at ten? :D
We are very proud of him and appreciate all the nice comments about him.
Thanks
Joe Grant

[Kasept]

Do you think we can start a campaign to have NYRA bring back the 10F Saratoga Breeders Cup so he can run in at at ten? :D
We are very proud of him and appreciate all the nice comments about him.
Thanks
Joe Grant
Joe,

Congratulations again! You, Mary, TJ and Pat, and everyone associated with Attire, have the admiration and appreciation of racing fans..

Not only should we push for the return of the SAR BC, we should advocate a name change for it to the Evening Attire BCH! They're changing the name of the Californian to the Lava Man, so why can't Attire have one named after him?

[GenuineRisk]

Joe,

Congratulations again! You, Mary, TJ and Pat, and everyone associated with Attire, have the admiration and appreciation of racing fans..

Not only should we push for the return of the SAR BC, we should advocate a name change for it to the Evening Attire BCH! They're changing the name of the Californian to the Lava Man, so why can't Attire have one named after him?

Where do I sign the petition? :) Hurray for EA!

[Hickory Hill Hoff]

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o122/kasept/eve.jpg

This.....is what thoroughbred racing is all about! :) He is what legends are all about.

[Danzig]

Do you think we can start a campaign to have NYRA bring back the 10F Saratoga Breeders Cup so he can run in at at ten? :D
We are very proud of him and appreciate all the nice comments about him.
Thanks
Joe Grant

congratulations!! you guys struck gold with evening attire.

[byalip]

Here's a link to the video for anyone who missed the race:
http://www.nyra.com/Aqueduct/Broadcast/Video/StakesRaces.shtml

Just scroll down to the Queen's County--it's the last race featured on the page.

Check out EA's profile in the stretch...he lowers his body mass and streamlines himself. Totally professional.

[miraja2]

Here's a link to the video for anyone who missed the race:
http://www.nyra.com/Aqueduct/Broadcast/Video/StakesRaces.shtml

Just scroll down to the Queen's County--it's the last race featured on the page.

Check out EA's profile in the stretch...he lowers his body mass and streamlines himself. Totally professional.
Good call by Durkin who seemed genuinely excited that the "old warhorse" did it by "running like an exuberant two year old" down the stretch.
I don't know why this horse ever started just walking out of the gate like that, but it sure gives him some added character.
The funny thing about a horse like Evening Attire is that not only are the horses he raced against early in his career (like Street Cry) long retired, but now their offspring (like Street Sense) are retiring too. Meanwhile he is still out there winning graded stakes races.

[letswastemoney]

They're changing the Californian to the Lava Man? So...Lava Man...might race in his own race?

[Kasept]

They're changing the Californian to the Lava Man? So...Lava Man...might race in his own race?
Yeah! And Evening Attire could conceivably do the same thing...

[ALostTexan]

Where do I sign the petition? :) Hurray for EA!

I am right there with you. Sign me up...

[FGFan]

Do you think we can start a campaign to have NYRA bring back the 10F Saratoga Breeders Cup so he can run in at at ten? :D
We are very proud of him and appreciate all the nice comments about him.
Thanks
Joe Grant

Thanks to you and his other owners for taking such great care of him and bringing us such a fun and thrilling horse.
He has so many fans and so many threads on here.

Where do I need to sign for the campaign.

Oh and did you ever think maybe he would like to come south to the warm Fair Grounds for the winter, it would be good for those old bones... just a thought....:)

[sumitas]

EA's 1/2 brother, Dr. Rockett, stands at Mill Creek in NY.

[blackthroatedwind]

Do you think we can start a campaign to have NYRA bring back the 10F Saratoga Breeders Cup so he can run in at at ten? :D
We are very proud of him and appreciate all the nice comments about him.
Thanks
Joe Grant


Must have been some pretty pressing engagements in Boston for you to miss the big event yesterday.

[philcski]

Joe,

Congratulations again! You, Mary, TJ and Pat, and everyone associated with Attire, have the admiration and appreciation of racing fans..

Not only should we push for the return of the SAR BC, we should advocate a name change for it to the Evening Attire BCH! They're changing the name of the Californian to the Lava Man, so why can't Attire have one named after him?

They absolutely should rename a race after him. How about the Queens County?

[Buffymommy]

As I read the article I actually had tears in my eyes... :)

GO EA!!!!

Maybe he felt like the horse racing community needed another hero and he was telling us "HERE I AM!"

[Sightseek]

Do you think we can start a campaign to have NYRA bring back the 10F Saratoga Breeders Cup so he can run in at at ten? :D
We are very proud of him and appreciate all the nice comments about him.
Thanks
Joe Grant

Congrats to you and the old boy!

[slotdirt]

This is great stuff. I was always a huge Black Tie Affair fan, and it's good to see one of his boys still out there doing well.

[SuffolkGirl]

Do you think we can start a campaign to have NYRA bring back the 10F Saratoga Breeders Cup so he can run in at at ten? :D
We are very proud of him and appreciate all the nice comments about him.
Thanks
Joe Grant

Congratulations and thank you for giving us such pleasure with this wonderful horse. Great big thanks for taking such good care of him, too. Can't wait to see him run in and win the Mass Cap next year!!

[azerica]

Just rewatched the race. Tom Durkin really gave a good call on that one. What a finish Evening Attire gave. Way to go...

[Hickory Hill Hoff]

It would be neat if someone has his complete lifetime past performances and could post them here.
He'll be the topic of my column this week.

[FGFan]

It would be neat if someone has his complete lifetime past performances and could post them here.
He'll be the topic of my column this week.

I was thinking the same thing....glad you asked.
Hope someone can post them.

[ArlJim78]

here ya go. Its amazing to look back and see the names of horses he ran against. For example the horses that ran second to him in his first stakes races were Street Cry and BaltoStar!

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee294/alienmind_2007/EA1.gif
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee294/alienmind_2007/EA2.gif

[SniperSB23]

He's only had a brisnet figure under 90 twice since 2001, pretty amazing.

[philcski]

He was 65-1 in the '01 Discovery?!? I didn't remember that!

[ArlJim78]

Street Cry has sons that are retired!

also, look at the effect blinkers had.

[philcski]

Street Cry has sons that are retired!

also, look at the effect blinkers had.

I saw it as going two turns for the first time, which obviously is his game, but the blinkers surely helped as well.
Another interesting note is he finished only 7 lengths back at 6F against the future champion sprinter Orientate in '01, which again is obviously not his preferred distance.

I just find it fantastic to see him happy and trying hard going on 10. We need more geldings like him!

[SniperSB23]

I love it that from 14 wins, all on the dirt, his average win distance is 9.21 furlongs. Don't see that too often.

[SniperSB23]

I just find it fantastic to see him happy and trying hard going on 10. We need more geldings like him!

Hell, we need more stallions like him!

[ArlJim78]

check this out, with 12 starts this year as a nine year old, it marked his busiest racing year to date!

[Heels1989]

63 starts, only 6 worse than 5th. How can you not love this guy.

[miraja2]

As I read the article I actually had tears in my eyes... :)

GO EA!!!!

Maybe he felt like the horse racing community needed another hero and he was telling us "HERE I AM!"
Come on now Buffy. He is old and still very competitive. I like the horse and I wish him nothing but the best in the future.....but tears in your eyes? A hero for the horse racing community? I think that might be a bit over the top. He is old but is still physically able to compete, and still seems to enjoy racing. That makes it a cool story, but it would take a bit more than that to bring tears to my eyes.....like a swift kick to the groin.

[horseofcourse]

Incredible looking at his past performances. The one that caught my eye was the 2002 Excelsior. He rocketed to the lead and led by 5 at the 2nd call. Of 63 career races....he never did it before and never did it after. Makes me wonder what was going on that day?? Especially coming in off 3 straight wins from mid pack. I'd love to hear the story behind that one as right after that he was back of the pack every single race.

Incredibly nice horse and quite the 9 year old season racing 12 times and never finishing worse than 4th in any race. The 9 month break sure served him well this year. He deserves any attention he gets.

[SniperSB23]

Come on now Buffy. He is old and still very competitive. I like the horse and I wish him nothing but the best in the future.....but tears in your eyes? A hero for the horse racing community? I think that might be a bit over the top. He is old but is still physically able to compete, and still seems to enjoy racing. That makes it a cool story, but it would take a bit more than that to bring tears to my eyes.....like a swift kick to the groin.

I take it you don't get out much. Hell, that is a tearjerker and a half compared to most of the $h!t women cry about.

[Buffymommy]

Come on now Buffy. He is old and still very competitive. I like the horse and I wish him nothing but the best in the future.....but tears in your eyes? A hero for the horse racing community? I think that might be a bit over the top. He is old but is still physically able to compete, and still seems to enjoy racing. That makes it a cool story, but it would take a bit more than that to bring tears to my eyes.....like a swift kick to the groin.


As someone who thought she was going to lose her horse for the past month, it made me feel good to see this horse do well. Call me a sentimental female, I don't care. I can give ya that kick in the groin if ya want...

And what I meant by a hero was that he(EA) wanted the world to take notice of him. :p A horse who in this sport is still competing at his age and being competitive at that.

[SentToStud]

I say give credit where due.

If it weren't for Barcola's generosity (not to mention his cyber-trashing of my otherwise winning, Barcola-singled p-4 ticket), none of this would be happening.

[miraja2]

I can give ya that kick in the groin if ya want....
lol...Fair enough.
As someone that hangs a Sunday Silence ornament on the Christmas tree each year, perhaps I have little room to criticize other peoples' sentimentality regarding horses.

[Buffymommy]

lol...Fair enough.
As someone that hangs a Sunday Silence ornament on the Christmas tree each year, perhaps I have little room to criticize other peoples' sentimentality regarding horses.


Watch out. I have very strong legs!

I hang Secretariat on my tree. :)

[GenuineRisk]

lol...Fair enough.
As someone that hangs a Sunday Silence ornament on the Christmas tree each year, perhaps I have little room to criticize other peoples' sentimentality regarding horses.

See items 3-9:

http://www.breyerhorses.com/products/prodsearch.php?search=ornament&ord=breed&start=21

[my miss storm cat]

Nice piece on the old guy..... :)

http://www.drf.com/news/article/91613.html

Good luck!

[Holland Hacker]

Noticed he was nominated to to Laurel Sprint Festival this weekend.

[Norfolk]

We will enter him in the Stymie on March 1 if NYRA is open

[my miss storm cat]

GOOD LUCK! :)


Belmont Park - May 11th, 2008 - Race 8
Volponi S. - Grade:
Estimated Local Post Time: 4:43 PM
Race Type: Stakes
Breed: Thoroughbred
Age Restriction: Four Year Old and Upward
Purse: $75,000
Distance: One And One Eighth Miles
Surface: Inner turf

1 Summer Doldrums (KY)
Rajiv Maragh

2 British Blue (KY)
Jean-Luc Samyn

3 Evening Attire (KY)
Edgar S. Prado

4 Ruff and Ready (FL)
Eibar Coa

5 Strike a Deal (KY)
Javier Castellano

6 Parading (KY)
John R. Velazquez

7 Wood Be Willing (KY)
Alan Garcia

8 Interpatation (KY)
Jose L. Espinoza

9 Rathor (IRE)
Garrett K. Gomez

10 Tam Lin (GB)
Kent J. Desormeaux

MTO No Reply (KY)

Darley Stable

[TheSpyder]

Scratched today...everything OK Norfolk?

Spyder

[my miss storm cat]

I see he's (also) entered in the Fit to Fight on Thursday.....

Good luck to him.

[Norfolk]

Some people think we entered hoping it would come off the turf but in that case we would have entered MTO and saved a thousand dollars. We wanted to let him run on firm turf but when it came up yielding we scratched and went to Thursday's 12f race were he drew the number one gate, that should give him plenty of time to fall asleep and give everyone a furlong head start. :)

[TheSpyder]

Funny one! All the best for Thursday...will be routing for him.

SpyderSome people think we entered hoping it would come off the turf but in that case we would have entered MTO and saved a thousand dollars. We wanted to let him run on firm turf but when it came up yielding we scratched and went to Thursday's 12f race were he drew the number one gate, that should give him plenty of time to fall asleep and give everyone a furlong head start. :)

[my miss storm cat]

GOOD for him!

Heard he gave the kids a head start again but was 2nd? God i love this guy.

Congrats. Can't wait to see the replay. :)

[Sightseek]

Nice run Norfolk! Lots of carrots tonight for the old boy! :)

[Hickory Hill Hoff]

Gotta love him! :)

[Norfolk]

Gotta love him! :)
We do love him. We cheered from him today as loud as we did in his first race.

[TheSpyder]

Good luck Friday!

Spyder

[SuffolkGirl]

Best of luck to Evening Attire and all of his connections. I will be cheering him on.

[Nascar1966]

Hope he shows the young one's who the boss is. I will be rooting for hin while I am sleeping. I had working twelve hour days.

[ddthetide]

good luck and safe trip friday!

[ddthetide]

congrats on another good run by the old guy!:tro:

[Norfolk]

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

[slotdirt]

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.

[my miss storm cat]

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=698692&category=SPORTS&newsdate=6/25/2008

:)

[my miss storm cat]

Good luck on Saturday!

[FGFan]

Good luck on Saturday!

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

[ddthetide]

Good luck on Saturday! have a great safe trip!

[FGFan]

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

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

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

:tro: :tro: :tro: :tro:

[ddthetide]

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

[Nascar1966]

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.

[Norfolk]

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.

[pgiaco]

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

[Sightseek]

What a good boy he is!

:)

[kelster]

Love this horse! :)

[Norfolk]

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.

[pgiaco]

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.

[my miss storm cat]

Nice little piece on everyones favorite gentleman...

http://www.st-publishing.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=431&Itemid=73

[ddthetide]

Nice little piece on everyones favorite gentleman...

http://www.st-publishing.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=431&Itemid=73 nice article, thanks for posting.

[my miss storm cat]

:)

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

[my miss storm cat]

Good luck tomorrow!!! :tro:

[ddthetide]

scratched?:confused:

[Hickory Hill Hoff]

scratched?:confused:

Going to the JCGC next Saturday?

[Norfolk]

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.

[my miss storm cat]

How's he doing today?

Hope he's happy and feeling good. :)

[Hickory Hill Hoff]

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.

[Nascar1966]

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.

[my miss storm cat]

Excerpt, TT...

http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/racing-news/2008/December/04/NYRA-increases-purse-values-for-13-Grade-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:

[GBBob]

Excerpt, TT...

http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/racing-news/2008/December/04/NYRA-increases-purse-values-for-13-Grade-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

[ddthetide]

Excerpt, TT...

http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/racing-news/2008/December/04/NYRA-increases-purse-values-for-13-Grade-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: well earned, congrats to all involved.

[my miss storm cat]

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/eveningattire/id9.html

[TheSpyder]

yea, and i know your birthday;) 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/eveningattire/id9.html

[my miss storm cat]

yea, and i know your birthday;)
... cause I share it with such a great guy (and a sexy one too)? :p