BaltimoreSun.com

5/16/2015

Alexandra Scott touched many hearts in the eight short years she lived. At 4, having battled cancer almost since birth, the Connecticut girl determined to fight it on another front.

In 2000, Alex set up a lemonade stand in her front yard to fund research for pediatric cancer, and to "help other kids like [doctors] helped me." That year, Alex's lemonade stand raised $2,000. The media took note, and donations poured in. By the time she died in 2004, Alex's stand had drummed up $1 million.

But her charity had lost its poster child.

"We wanted to continue Alex's work, but how would we keep people interested?" said Liz Scott, her mother. "Then [racehorse] Afleet Alex comes along and takes it to another whole level."

It was the horse's near-tragic ride and victory in the 2005 Preakness that forged the two Alexes as one.

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