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The idea of a lemonade stand to help raise money for pediatric cancer was the inspiration of a 4-year-old girl named Alex Scott in 2000. What started out as a single stand outside of her Connecticut home grew into a national horse-racing phenomenon in 2005, the year after Alex died.
Alex’s Lemonade Stand was a cause everyone in horse racing rallied behind, and in 2005 lemonade overtook mint juleps, black-eyed susans or Belmont breezes as the toast of the Triple Crown.
Alex Scott’s parents, Liz and Jay Scott, connected with Chuck Zacney of Cash is King Stable, which raced 2005 Preakness and Belmont Stakes winner Afleet Alex, and joined forces to help raise awareness for the charity. There was a lemonade stand at Churchill Downs for the Kentucky Derby and at Pimlico Race Course for the Preakness Stakes. Those were in addition to lemonade stands at multiple other tracks around the country throughout the Triple Crown.
