Equine celebration fundraiser for research group
A “Celebration of the Horse” fund-raiser for the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation is beingness held side yesteryear side calendar month at Keeneland Race Course inwards Lexington, Kentucky.
Presented yesteryear Cincinnati-based Great American Insurance, the fund-raiser volition hold upward held on Friday, Oct 26, 2012, at the Keene Barn.
Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation is traditionally the nation’s leading source of someone funding for equine medical research. Since 1983, it has provided well-nigh $19 1000000 for 287 projects at twoscore universities.
The eventide volition include cocktails, a buffet dinner, amusement as well as a alive auction. Among the auction items volition hold upward tickets to the 2013 USA Open lawn tennis tournament inwards New York as well as the Indy 500 inwards Indianapolis. An master slice of artwork commemorating the occasion, produced yesteryear renowned equine cartoonist Pierre “Peb” Bellocq, volition also hold upward auctioned.
Country music vocalist Arthur Hancock IV, proprietor of Willie’s Locally Known inwards Lexington, volition render amusement during the cocktail hour; at that topographic point volition also hold upward dancing to the music of Superfecta. Superfecta is a professional person musical ensemble that combines a multifariousness of styles into an exciting as well as entertaining combination of sight as well as sound. The band expertly covers music ranging from jazz standards, fusion jazz, as well as ’60s Motown to ’70s funk, ’80s dance, electrical flow transcend 40, as well as more.
“As the 2012 racing flavor draws to a close, it is a goodness fourth dimension to reverberate on equine wellness as well as all that our foundation does to better it through of import research,” said Edward L. Bowen, president of Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation.
“We are grateful to Great American Insurance as well as Keeneland for their respective roles inwards this worthwhile evening.”
Tickets are $150.
More information: contact Nancy Kelly, (212) 521-5305 or nkelly@jockeyclub.com.
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