The Sanctuary Farm at Chestnut Hall is
hosting a Front Porch Summer Concert
Series this weekend to support the
Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation.
Joining me now with more on this
event that's going to kick off
the place to be all summer long is
Whitney Vogel and Chase Skinner,
their first featured performer.
Tell us all about everything happening,
Whitney, I tell you.
I've been out to the Thoroughbred
Retirement Foundation at Chestnut Hall.
It is such a special place.
I tell everybody you've got to go,
because this is the retirement
farms of all retirement farms.
Really, The Reds.
It's gorgeous, really
is. It's a place of peace.
It's a place of fun.
It's green space. It's,
and of course the horses, I mean,
each with their own personality.
You really just it's it's
it's a lovely place to go.
It is. And so they're they're
actual they're thoroughbreds
that have raced. That's correct.
They've had stellar careers.
Well, some of them, we keep
telling them they're all winners.
They don't want to know what
they're going to win your heart
I'll tell you that it was just
so great because these are
located all around the country
and I think for us to have one.
So close kind of. I mean this is
like 20 minutes away from here.
It is and it's the only public farm
that we have. So these horses truly
are ambassadors for all of our horses.
The 425 we have nationwide. Yeah.
So we, you know, when people come out there,
they get to meet the horses,
they for the the concerts, listen to music,
bring their picnics or you know,
purchase a burger and dog there.
And we're just really excited about
it just because we're raising money.
For those horses and other ones. Yeah.
And I love this kind of like the idea
behind the The Front Porch series.
Right. Kicks off when?
Saturday. Saturday. Yeah. Oh,
you're gonna have good weather, too.
Good. I'm excited. Yeah.
We, we open the venue at 5:00
because we want people to bring your
own picnics, bring your chairs.
You can pop up a table,
you can make it fancy.
You can just spread out a blanket,
be really casual.
So Cheese board and let's go.
Chase Skinner is going to be there kicking
off the series.
Congratulations, and thank you
for doing that. That's wonderful.
Absolutely. Why was it important?
Important for you to to
jump into this and say, yes,
I'm going to be there for this. Well,
my, my, I grew up.
I was born and raised here in Louisville.
So I've always Derby's always
been a big deal for me.
I used to park cars down where I lived,
you know by Churchill Downs.
But this all kind of came out of nowhere.
My mom was a big big fan of the
Derby and she passed away last
year and so I kind of once I got
the first call about the other
event in the national anthem
and she reached our another.
Friend of mine reached out
and it kind of blowed into a
great time to think about what happens,
what happens to these horses
after they stop racing.
You know and you know our horses
are not able to be ridden anymore.
They can't really go into that second career.
So they just have to find a place where
they can retire and and live and and
be safe and be cared for you know and
just enjoy life you know and and we we
we certainly have do that out there.
You know we we'll have two
more concerts this summer.
We'll have Soul Kitchen coming
up at the end of June,
June 24th and the checkmates July 29th.
Yeah. So we are excited
you through all of summer, right.
And Jason, I feel like that's a great
opportunity for your fans here to
come on out and get the sample you
know to hear you to hear new music
and that like that environment.
I haven't personally been able
to be out go out there yet but.
From what I've seen, just the
photos and everything, it looks,
it looks unbelievable. Well, I
feel like already just, you know,
we talked about you on the show or last week,
you're super fans out there, right?
Because already I feel like his fan base
and just the people that want to come
out and you are a great fit for them.
I think just to sit and chill and relax out
there, it's just wondering. Each person
will find a horse that
matches their own personality.
Well, you can adopt A horse.
You can't. You can chase,
you need a horse.
Well, there was one Skinner was
supposed to run in the Derby.
And I'm like, and the day
of they I'm getting all
these messages and they're like
Skinner Scratch. I'm like,
well, we can get you a retired horse.
We can rename it, you know,
like what is she promising, right.
But it's just like people always
think they all have good names.
They all do. It's expensive
to. Pay even to feed to one
horse. Yeah, is a lot of
money from and I think,
you know when you get to adopt one,
you get to like donate money to help
with the care. I mean that one horse
years like this past year where
we had to you know we had the
drought we had to stop hey,
you know feeding hay early,
those are expenses that not necessarily are
accounted for throughout our whole, you know.
Heard so it really starts.
The inflation has really started to add up.
So we really do need some support
and we hope that people will
come out and make a $20 donation.
And all you
have to do is make a donation,
come on out with your picnic,
say hi to Chase out there.
Get to know him and his music as well.
Whitney Chase, thank you all so
much for stopping by. Definitely.
So For more information,
all you have to do is go to trfinc.org.