Evening Attire (horse)
| Evening Attire | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Black Tie Affair |
| Dam | Concolour |
| Damsire | Our Native |
| Sex | Gelding |
| Foaled | February 14, 1998 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Dappled Gray |
| Breeder | Joseph M. Grant & Thomas J. Kelly |
| Owner | Joseph & Mary Grant, Thomas J. Kelly |
| Trainer | Timothy Kelly Patrick J. Kelly |
| Record | 69:15-16-9 |
| Earnings | $2,977,130 |
| Major wins | |
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Queens County Handicap (2001 & 2007) Discovery Handicap (2001) Jockey Club Gold Cup (2002) Saratoga Breeders' Cup Handicap (2002, 2004) Aqueduct Handicap (2002) Red Smith Handicap (2002) Stuyvesant Handicap (2005) The Stymie Handicap (2007) Greenwood Cup Stakes (2008) |
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| Honours | |
| The Evening Attire Stakes to be first run on January 17, 2009 | |
| Last updated on December 29, 2008 | |
Evening Attire is a Kentucky-bred Thoroughbred racehorse, foaled on February 14, 1998, though most of his racing career took place in New York.
Bred by Joseph M. Grant and Hall of Famer Thomas J. Kelly, and owned by Kelly along with his longtime clients Joe and Mary Grant, Evening Attire was first trained by Tommy's son Tim Kelly. When Tim retired, the horse was taken over by another of Tommy's sons, Pat Kelly. The first time Tommy Kelly watched him breeze, he said, "That's a special horse. He'll be a stakes winner." He also said, "I can't put it into words what's it's been like owning and breeding a horse like Evening Attire. After some of his races, I went home and cried. How lucky can one person get?"
Kelly purchased Evening Attire's dam, Concolor, from Doe Run Farm, one of his former clients. He invited Joe Grant, an old friend, to become a 50/50 partner in her offspring. Because of back and heart problems, he usually watched Evening Attire's races on television instead of attending them in person.
A dappled gray, Evening Attire was gelded because one of his testicles was immature and stuck in the canal. Said Pat Kelly, "It had been bugging him, so they wound up gelding him. The poor guy had to have two surgeries over the winter." As a gelding, Evening Attire raced until the age of ten. Out of the successful Mr. Prospector line, he raced well off the pace, often closing dramatically.
As a two- and three-year-old, Evening Attire came off of five straight defeats in allowance company to win back-to-back stakes against top-class horses. In 2002, he earned his most important win in the Jockey Club Gold Cup.
Evening Attire is the son of 1991 Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year winner Black Tie Affair. In 69 starts, he won 15 races, placed 16 times, and finished third nine times. A millionaire twice over, he earned nearly three million dollars at the races.
On March 3, 2007, at odds of 8-1 and at the age of 9, he took the 52nd running of The Stymie by two and a half length, making a move at the 8th pole. The Aqueduct track writer wrote, "Evening Attire proved that age means little if you have class." [1]
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