First annual Ironstone Derby

First annual Ironstone Derby
And they’re off... Ironstone Farm on May 3, 2014 launched its
first Ironstone Derby.
The Ironstone Derby is now an annual road race and Kentucky
Derby party on the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. The
slogan? Run for the Roses, Stay for the Party!
This year people could choose a 5-mile run or a 2-mile walk
through Lowell, beginning and ending at LeLacheur Park, the
home of the Lowell Spinners baseball team, a Single A Red
Sox affiliate. After the races, people enjoyed an all-you-can eat
Derby Sponsors
• Lowell Spinners
• DMSE Sports
• Orange Leaf Frozen
Yogurt
• Blue Cross Blue
Shield Massachusetts
• NetScout Systems
• Wheelabrator
• Trinity EMS
• 99 Restaurants
• Lowell General Hospital barbecue feast, or concession food. Kids had their faces painted
and made and raced their own stick horses. Then, everyone was
able to watch the Kentucky Derby on the new Jumbotron.
The race and walk were organized by Dave McGillivray and his
company, director of the Boston Marathon. “You’ll be the only
people to be able to say, in 20 years, you did it each and every
year,” McGillivray said to the crowd before the inaugural race.
The second Ironstone Derby will be May 2, 2015 - the day of
the 2015 Kentucky Derby.
• AMD Telemedicine • Knights of Columbus,
Andover
• All Sports Heroes
• A.H. Notini & Sons
• Black Tie Limousine
• Griffin Greenhouse
Supplies
• Best Fitness Drum
Hill
• Burtons Grill
• Greater Boston
Running Company
Derby Donors
Wendy Morrissette
Victoria & Alan Bernard
Thank you to the many
Patricia & John Grandmaison
participants and others who
donated through Race Roster. Jane Linton
Food and Drug and The Bug LLC
Also thanks to:
Marguerite MacDonald
James and Nancy Greeley
Nancy Weems
Jeffrey Ferrante
Humphrey
Michael DeLuca
US Biological Life Sciences
Roberta Cochran
Gerald DiBello