Equine Artist Pat DeLong contacted The Exceller Fund last week and offered to donate a portion of the proceeds to The Exceller Fund from auctions of her artwork featuring Exceller and Ferdinand.
These are Giclee Prints from her original artwork and they are quite beautiful!
You can see all of her actions at the following link:
The auctions for the print of Exceller and the print of Ferdinand have the charity ribbon and a notation that 50% of the final bid will be donated to The Exceller Fund.
You may recall Pat's beautiful artwork from the Final Turn Gallery at:
http://www.finalturngallery.com/Triple-Crown-winners-plus-other-racehorses?page=2
Please take a look at these beautiful prints. The portrait of Exceller is especially haunting, and Ferdinand is quite poignant.
It is ironic that these two champions, both trained by Charlie Whittingham and ridden by Bill Shoemaker, should meet the same grisly fate.
The Exceller Fund has recently acquired 2 geldings who were scheduled to be shipped for slaughter today. We helped network into a private home a lovely filly that was also on the schedule. We have to remain a bit discrete for now on who they are because if word gets back to certain people, we could be shut out from accessing these OTTB's in the future. It's frustrating not to be able to say too much, but we need to make sure we can continue helping these horses.
Thank you again for your support of The Exceller Fund and our goal of Providing a Future Beyond the Finish Line sm.
