2020 Member Election Candidate Biographies

2020 Member Election
Candidate Biographies

Conrad Bandoroff
Horse racing and the thoroughbred industry is in Conrad Bandoroff’s blood. His parents, Craig and Holly
Bandoroff, founded Denali Stud in 1990. Growing up on the sales grounds and the farm, Conrad
discovered his passion and affinity for horses at a young age. He graduated from Sewanee: The
University of the South with a Bachelor’s Degree with Honors in Economics. Having spent time working
for trainers John Ward and Hall of Famer Bill Mott, Bradley Thoroughbreds and Arrowfield Stud in
Australia, Conrad fulfilled a long-term goal of being accepted to the Godolphin Flying Start—a two-year
management training program in which he traveled and studied all facets of the industry in six different
countries. Upon completion of the Flying Start in 2017, Conrad realized his life-long dream of returning
to Kentucky to join the team at Denali Stud as Vice President. In 2019, Conrad took over the running of
day-to-day operations of the farm.

Denali Stud, situated on 800 acres in Bourbon Country, is a perennial leading consignor. Since 1990
Denali has produced or sold 35 Grade 1 winners, more recently including Kentucky Derby winner Animal
Kingdom and Belmont Stakes winners Tapwrit and Sir Winston. Over the years, Denali has established a
proven history of raising and selling “Saturday Afternoon Horses” and a proud reputation for conducting
business with the highest levels of integrity, honesty and stewardship of the horse.

Barbara R. Banke
One of the wine industry’s top executives and innovators, Jackson Family Wines Chairman & Proprietor
Barbara R. Banke has spent the last three decades leading the company she co-founded with her late
husband, wine icon Jess Jackson. Today, the Jackson Family’s wine portfolio is a global collection of
world-class vineyards and wineries, including acclaimed properties in California, Oregon, France, Italy,
Chile, Australia, and South Africa.

Banke is a graduate of UCLA and Hastings Law School. As a former land use and constitutional law
attorney, she spent more than a decade arguing cases before the United States Supreme Court and
Courts of Appeal.

Throughout the last decade, Banke has helmed Stonestreet Farm and the Stonestreet Training &
Rehabilitation Center with a guiding focus to breed and develop high quality thoroughbreds. Stonestreet
has bred and raised the winners of more than 70 graded stake races, including 2020 Arkansas Derby (G1)
winner and Kentucky Derby hopeful CHARLATAN.

Stonestreet Stables has captured over 30 grade one stakes including three Breeders’ Cup races. Horses
of the Year and Hall of Fame inductees CURLIN and RACHEL ALEXANDRA, the homebred Eclipse Award
winners GOOD MAGIC, MY MISS AURELIA and Cartier Award winning LADY AURELIA all carried the
maroon and gold silks.

Barbara is diligent in serving many thoroughbred industry organizations and determined in her pursuit
to secure a bright future for our industry.

James (Jimmy) G. Bell
James (Jimmy) G. Bell is a native of Lexington and is the President and Racing Manager of Godolphin
America. Jimmy has been involved in the thoroughbred industry his whole life. His parents founded
Jonabell Farm in 1954 and he served as President and General Manager of Jonabell Farm until its
acquisition by Sheikh Mohammed in 2001. The Bell’s raised Never Say Die at Jonabell who went on to be
the first American-bred horse to win the Epsom Derby. During Jimmy’s 19-year tenure with Godolphin
he has overseen the careers of some of Sheikh Mohammed’s many USA based G1 winners including
Bernardini, It’s Tricky, Alpha, Questing, Better Lucky, Maxfield etc.

Jimmy graduated from the University of Arizona in 1976 and commenced working for his father at
Jonabell right after college. He is very involved with community and industry endeavors and charities.
He has held various positions on industry and community boards, including the Jockey Club
Thoroughbred Safety Committee, Keeneland Association Advisory Board, Fayette Alliance,
Thoroughbred Charities of America and Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association. He is
a past President of the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance and Thoroughbred Club of America.

Carrie Brogden
Carrie Brogden was born in Virginia and was riding ponies before she could walk. Her mother brought
her first pony, Lassie, home in the back of a station wagon while six months pregnant with her. Carrie
was born into the horse industry and grew up with two veterinarians, dogs, cats and lots of horses on
her parents’ farm, Pair O Docs, where they stood the classy old stallion, Clem. Carrie showed ponies
extensively throughout her youth until she was 16 years old.

Carrie graduated from James Madison University in Virginia with a degree in Psychology and a minor in
Biology, looking to pursue a career in genetics. She lived outside of Washington, D.C. and ran her
family's chain of upscale animal giftware stores until they were sold in 2000. The Thoroughbred bug bit
her again as her mother started back with a broodmare band shuttling back and forth from Virginia to
Kentucky. Carrie’s background in show hunters gave her a big leg up in developing an eye for a horse
and the particular movement that most athletes possess.

Carrie moved to Kentucky in 2001 and started a farm named for her great grandfather Dean Machmer,
who was dean of the University of Massachusetts. To this day, there is a building on the Amherst
campus named in his honor, Machmer Hall, which became the name of Carrie’s family farm. Machmer
Hall is now 560 acres and including their own mares, and partnership mares, they currently have about
300 horses on the farm. Machmer Hall also preps approximately 75-95 yearlings a year for the sales.
Machmer Hall graduates include Breeders’ Cup winner and Champion Tepin (G1), Mind Your Biscuits
(G1), Flat Out (G1), Premium Tap (G1) Black Seventeen (G1), Currency Swap (G1) , Meadow Breeze (G1),
Gift Box (G1) , Dream Tree (G1) etc. . Machmer Hall is one of leading breeders in the US. Carrie was the
founding and majority partner in top 10 consignor, Select Sales before going on her own and forming
Machmer Hall Sales in 2020. Carrie and her Australian- born husband Craig live in Lexington with their
three great kids, Reece, Isabelle and Layne along with their 4 dogs, and cat. Carrie loves the
Thoroughbred industry and enjoys every moment spent with the horses, especially watching a winning
graduate cross the finish line first.

Boyd Browning
Boyd joined Fasig-Tipton in 1988 and has served as the Company’s President since 2008. Prior to that he
worked in public accounting for Ernst & Whinney, which is now known as Ernst & Young. Browning is a
graduate of Transylvania University.

He has worked closely with several industry groups including the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance, The
Race for Education, KEEP, Horse Country and KTA. He currently serves as a member of the Breeders’
Cup Ltd.

Neal Clarke
Neal Clarke has been involved in the thoroughbred industry for over thirty years. Growing up in Ireland
he learned how to ride at a young age and worked as an exercise rider for a steeplechase trainer on
weekends and school holidays. Upon finishing high school Neal came to Kentucky and worked for a year
at Taylor Made Farm where he acquired a passion for American racing and breeding.

After graduating from University College Dublin with a Bachelor of Commerce, Neal returned to the US
and worked on the racetrack for a number of years until finally settling in Kentucky and starting Atlas
Farm as a commercial breeding operation. Soon after Neal founded Bedouin Bloodstock with longtime
friend and business partner Conor Doyle, and over the following twenty years developed successful
breeding and sales enterprises.

Since its inception Atlas Farm has foaled and raised many graded stakes winning horses including recent
Grade One Winner Tom’s D’Etat. Among Bedouin Bloodstock’s achievements are the sales of Grade I
winning fillies Catherine Sophia, Constellation and Her Excellency. In addition, they have sold as
yearlings Grade I winners Mshawish, Condo Commander and Magistretti. A cornerstone of both
businesses is an emphasis on the well-being of horses and a commitment to open and honest practices.

Neal currently lives on Atlas Farm with his wife Julie and their children Georgia and Henry. He is
committed to working to raise the profile of horse racing and to promote the growth of breeding and
sales.

Doug Cauthen
Cauthen's principal occupation is running Doug Cauthen Thoroughbred Management LLC with his wife
Katie. Primary clients include Three Chimneys Farm (where he is also Vice Chair of the board), Lael
Stables, Bill Casner, Siena Farm, Peter Blum, Marie Jones, and Woodslane Farm.

Cauthen graduated from the University of Kentucky with both a law degree and an equine marketing
and management degree.

Cauthen is currently the Chairman of the Kentucky Equine Education Project (KEEP) and serves on the
TOBA executive committee.

Carlos A. Heller
Currently, Mr. Heller is the president of the Bethia Group, one of the most important financial groups in
Chile with presence in a number of different areas of the economy from agriculture to communications,
with MEGA, being the largest and most valued television channel in the country.

To understand the character of the Bethia Group and Carlos Heller Solari, you need to understand its
origins. His motivation for the horse industry is impregnated by a family passion, which turned into his
lifelong project, the breeding of thoroughbred horses. Haras Don Alberto was the achievement of a
lifelong dream of Liliana Solari Falabella. As a young girl she was in love with horses that her father,
Alberto Solari Magnasco bred, and wanted to follow his footsteps. In 1987 she bought a farm in Los
Angeles (500 km South of Santiago, Chile) and named it in his memory. Her children Andrea and Carlos,
followed her enthusiasm inheriting that same passion for horses.

The family thoroughbred business started with thirty mares, one of them Bethia, who provided their
first joys at the racetracks, and later provided the name of the family business which was created to
group together in financial, services and investments. With time, Haras Don Alberto would turn itself
into the greatest family pride as it positioned itself as the main breeder in the country, with over 1,200
horses and several champions in Chile and few of them with great success in USA.

With this success came the dream of being part of the elite global body of thoroughbred businesses,
which was accomplished with the purchase of Vinery in 2013, one of the main farms in Kentucky, USA.
The farm is approximately 450 acres in the central region of Lexington, Kentucky. A strategic region for
those involved in the breeding of thoroughbreds and which has allowed Haras Don Alberto a presence
during both the Southern and Northern hemisphere, while to learn upon and improve the genetics and
breeding of future champions.

Without a doubt the thoroughbred passion of Carlos Heller Solari is in his DNA and goes beyond the
breeding and into the advancing of thoroughbred business at an international level. He is the president
of the Club Hipico de Santiago, the most renowned race track in the country.

Well-known as well is Mr. Heller’s love for soccer [football]. He currently is the president of the
emblematic Club de Football Universidad de Chile, a professional football team.

Those who know him consider him a dynamic and perseverant entrepreneur with intimate knowledge of
his businesses, something that characterizes his main executive team as well, all of which currently
employ 4,300 people. Mr. Heller is characterized by his constant preoccupation for making his
businesses successful with an emphasis on people and the environment.

Patrick Cummings
Pat Cummings, 39, has served as the Executive Director of the Thoroughbred Idea Foundation, a non-
profit think tank which seeks to improve the industry for all stakeholders, particularly horse owners and
horseplayers, since its launch in 2018. Before that, he spent three years leading the Hong Kong Jockey
Club’s racing public affairs team and previously, four years as director of racing information for Trakus.

A life-long fan of the sport, Pat’s work in racing began at the age of 18 in 1999 as the back-up track
announcer at Philadelphia Park (now Parx), a position he held through his undergraduate studies at
Dickinson College and during seven years working with mutual fund giant Vanguard, mostly in its
institutional division. Seeking professional development and with a desire to pivot into the racing
business full-time, Pat earned an MBA from Baylor University in Texas in 2011 and has greatly enjoyed
studying comparative racing jurisdictions, identifying what does and does not work in our complex
business.

As either a direct player or an investor, Pat has participated in the Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge since
2014, and been a horseplayer for as long as tellers would take his bets. He has also enjoyed the thrill of
horse ownership on three continents over the last decade, owning shares in horses racing for the
Emirates Entertainment Racing Club (Dubai), Onamission Syndicate (South Africa) and Brilliant Racing
(U.S), where he has five horses in active training.

Craig Fravel
Following the 2020 Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Santa Anita Park, Craig Fravel returned to
California to lead the racing assets of the Stronach Group including Golden Gate Fields, Gulfstream Park,
Laurel, Pimlico, Rosecroft and Santa Anita. Fravel undertook this new challenge following a rewarding
run as President and CEO of Breeders’ Cup Limited from 2011 through 2020. His tenure at the Breeders’
Cup followed 21 years managing the daily operations of the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club and serving as a
leader of various Thoroughbred industry organizations.

During Fravel’s time at Del Mar, the race track experienced unprecedented growth as a national leader
in daily average attendance and wagering at its world renowned summer meeting by the Pacific Ocean
just north of San Diego. Fravel oversaw the $80 million reconstruction of the track’s grandstand in 1992-
’93, and the $9 million installation of a new engineered racing surface, which was completed in 2007. He
was also a driving force in enhancing the customer experience of a day at the races and incorporating a
program of music and entertainment at Del Mar while helping to increase its reputation as one of the
most popular international venues in sports.

While at Del Mar and the Breeders’ Cup, Fravel emerged as a leading racing industry figure, serving in an
advisory capacity for a number of organizations. Fravel served as Chairman of Southern California Off-
Track Wagering, Inc. (SCOTWINC) and was Chairman of the statewide California Marketing Committee.
He also served on the board of Equibase, the official provider of racing data for the Thoroughbred
industry.

Fravel currently serves on the board of the National Racing and Medication Testing Consortium, the
Permanently Disabled Jockey’s Fund, the Southern California Equine Foundation and the Dolly Green
Research Foundation. He has served as a director of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association in
two capacities and previously served as Chairman. He is a member of The Jockey Club and served on its
Board of Stewards from 2011 until 2015.

Fravel joined the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club as its Executive Vice President in 1990 after working as a
partner in the San Diego law firm of Luce, Forward, Hamilton and Scripps, specializing in corporate law
and finance where he represented Del Mar. He was named President and General Manager of Del Mar
in March of 2010.

Fravel is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law (home of the reigning NCAAMB National
Champions) and a cum laude graduate of Bucknell University. Fravel and his wife Cathie have two
daughters, Sarah and Ireland, two dogs, three cats and two show jumpers.

Eric Gustavson
Eric joined the family farm with B. Wayne Hughes at Spendthrift in 2006, and got on board with the task
of restoring the farm back into a premier breeding operation. He served as both Marketing Director,
and now President, overseeing Spendthrift’s extensive growth going from one homebred stallion, to
currently having the largest roster in North America. That roster includes 2019 champion general sire
Into Mischief, as well as an abundance of top prospects retired to stud in the last several years, including
Bolt d’Oro, Omaha Beach, and champions Mitole and Vino Rosso.

Eric strongly believes in the “We, not me” philosophy of building a team working towards a common
goal, and is proud to be able to call himself a member of the Spendthrift family. He credits his father-in-
law with being the most innovative person in our industry, and has learned much from the seasoned
business leader. This has helped him as he oversees the team that brought such industry innovations as
the “Share the Upside Program,” and other such popular breeding programs with the primary focus of
reducing risk and economic burden for breeders. And now Spendthrift has also committed to the idea
of making racehorse ownership available to the masses through its investment in the micro-share start
up My Racehorse.

Dr. W. Andreas Jacobs
Andreas Jacobs, born in Bremen in Oct 1963, holds a postgraduate degree in European competition law
(Dr. iur.) and obtained an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau.

Before embarking on his entrepreneurial activities, Mr. Jacobs worked three years as a consultant and
project manager with The Boston Consulting Group in Munich, from 1991 to 1993.

Since 1992, Andreas Jacobs is an independent entrepreneur with a stake in several companies. Andreas
Jacobs was/is the Chairman or Board member of Jacobs Holding AG and its facilities Adecco SA, Barry
Callebaut AG, Infront Sports & Media AG, Brachs Candies Inc., and several other family owned
businesses.

Outside the Jacobs family investments, in 2014, Andreas Jacobs started an investment fund in Germany
where he acts as the founding investor and strategic adviser. Furthermore, he is a Member of the Board
of Dr. August Oetker KG, of Louis-Dreyfus Corporation and a trustee of the Hilti Family Foundation.
Andreas Jacobs serves on the Boards of several non-profit organizations. Since January 2015, he is the
Chairman of INSEAD, the leading business school of the world.

Andreas Jacobs also oversees the family's activities in horse racing and breeding, being the
Owner/Chairman of Newsells Park Stud, UK, Maine Chance Farms, South Africa, Gestüt Fährhof,
Germany and Baden Racing (Baden-Baden Racecourse}, Germany. Furthermore, he is Vice-Chairman of
the German Jockey-Club, Vice Chairman of the German Breeders and Owners Association, and non-
executive director of German Tote.

Andreas Jacobs is married to Natalie Jacobs. They have four children.

W. Bruce Lunsford
W. Bruce Lunsford is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lunsford Capital, LLC, a private
investment company headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the founder, former Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer of Ventas, Inc., a real estate investment trust; the founder, former Chairman,
President and CEO of Vencor, Inc., now known as Kindred Healthcare; and the founder of Atria
Communities Inc., the third largest assisted living company in the U.S. In his capacity as Chairman of
Lunsford Capital, he serves on the Board of Directors of several local and national companies.

Mr. Lunsford is a thoroughbred owner and breeder who has served as a member of the Breeders’ Cup
Limited since 2012 and is a former member of the Board of Directors of Churchill Downs Incorporated.
As an owner, he raced the Grade I filly, Madcap Escapade, the Grade I two-year old colt, First Samurai,
the Grade II filly, Bel Air Beauty, the Grade III filly, Tessa Blue, and the Illinois Derby winner, Vision and
Verse, who also finished second in the 1999 Belmont Stakes and Travers Stakes. Additionally, as a
breeder, he bred Grade I winner, Golden Missile, and multiple Grade I winner, Arravale, who was named
Canadian Horse of the Year in 2006. His homebred, Stacked Deck, won the Grade II Kennedy Road at
Woodbine and received the 2015 Sovereign Award as Canada’s champion male sprinter. As a co-owner,
he currently races Admiralty Pier, Canada’s 2017 champion two year old male Sovereign Award recipient
and winner of the Grade III Tampa Bay Stakes in February 2020.

Among his other ventures in the entertainment industry, he is co-founder of Hart-Lunsford Pictures, a
production company that has produced nine feature films. In 2013, Mr. Lunsford became an investor
and partner in the revitalization of Kentucky Kingdom Amusement Park and Hurricane Bay Water Park in
Louisville. This popular venue reopened in May 2014 and was named a top 10 amusement park for 2015
by MSN Travel and Fodor’s Travel.

Throughout his career, Mr. Lunsford has had a strong interest in public service, beginning with his
service in the administration of Governor John Y. Brown, Jr. as Kentucky’s Secretary of Commerce from
1981 to 1983. From 1983-1997, he served a variety of organizations, including the Board of Trustees of
the University of Kentucky, Bellarmine College, Centre College and Salmon P. Chase College of Law, as
well as Chairman of Kentucky Country Day School and the Kentucky Economic Development
Corporation.

Gray Lyster
Gray Lyster was born and raised on Ashview Farm, his family-run operation in Versailles, KY. Gray is a
sixth generation horsemen whose family has deep ties in the industry. He studied economics at
Vanderbilt University and is the Co-General Manager at Ashview. Gray is a 39 year old breeder, owner,
farm operator, agent, and consignor who continues to be hands on with horses on a daily basis. Gray
most recently co-bred Champion Breeders’ Cup winner, Runhappy along with many other stakes
winners. Gray is currently the President of the Consignors and Commercial Breeders Association, a
member of Keeneland’s Advisory Board of Directors, and the acting Past President of the Thoroughbred
Club of America. He and his wife, Natalie, have twin boys, Teddy and Bowen and a daughter, Lucy. Gray
is passionate about the sustainability of the industry from the foaling barn to the finish line.

Clem Murphy
Clem Murphy has been involved in the Thoroughbred industry for many years principally as a bloodstock
consultant and also as a racehorse owner and breeder. He joined Coolmore in 1978 having spent six
years with the international accounting firm Price Waterhouse. While there, Murphy gained an
accounting qualification through its audit department located in Dublin, Ireland.

Murphy has seen Coolmore develop its Irish base in Tipperary to become an international player with
racing and breeding operations in Europe, the United States and Australasia. He is a regular participant
at all major yearling and breeding stock sales around the world on behalf of Coolmore.

Murphy has represented John Magnier, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith on the Breeders’ Cup Board for
several years and is presently Joint Chairman of the Breeders’ Cup Racing and Nominations committee.
Coolmore is fully committed to the Breeders’ Cup Championships.

We live in uncertain times and it is appropriate that the Breeders' Cup leads the drive to facilitate
international harmonization. Racing and breeding jurisdictions around the world are progressing from
strength to strength and the Breeders' Cup is the best vehicle to ensure that the USA remains the
epicentre of the global thoroughbred industry by conforming to international standards like Japan, Hong
Kong, Australia and Europe.

Competitive purse money is of paramount importance in order to attract and maintain the continued
investment of owners; breeders depend on them to restock at the yearling and two-year old sales.
Provided the Breeders' Cup remains in a healthy financial position, we can lead the way in this regard.

This is what I would be promoting should I be re-elected.

Maria Niarchos-Gouazé
Maria I. Niarchos-Gouazé has been active in the international Thoroughbred industry for over 35 years.
She is currently a member of Breeders’ Cup Limited, an honorary member of the English Jockey Club and
a member of the US Jockey Club.

Famille Niarchos/Niarchos Family/Flaxman Holdings was relaunched in the 1970s by Stavros S. Niarchos,
a successful owner in England in the 1950s. He was helped since the early 1980s by his daughter, Maria.

In France, Stavros S. Niarchos was the leading owner in 1983, 1984 and leading breeder in 1989. Famille
Niarchos was leading breeder in 2002, leading owner in 2004 and continues to be successful at the
highest level on both sides of the Atlantic.

Notable horses campaigned by the family include chef de race Nureyev and his daughter Miesque, first
winner of two consecutive Breeders’ Cup Mile races, two Eclipse Awards, champion filly at 2, 3 and 4 in
Europe and a member of the Racing Hall of Fame. She was dam of East of the Moon and chef de race
Kingmambo, whose daughters include Divine Proportions and Light Shift. Other Grade/Group I horses
are Northern Trick, Bago, Hernando, Sulamani, Machiavellian, Dream Well, Hector Protector, Coup de
Genie, Magic of Life, Aruna, Chimes of Freedom and her son, Eclipse Award winner Aldebaran.

Famille Niarchos/Flaxman Holdings’ homebreds have won a record six Breeders’ Cup Miles with
Miesque (1987, 1988), Spinning World (1997), Domedriver (2002), Six Perfections (2003) and Karakontie
(2014). Also, in 2014, Main Sequence won the Breeders’ Cup Turf.

Most recently, the family colors were carried to Group I success by Erupt (2015 Grand Prix de Paris, 2016
Pattison Canadian International), Senga (2017 Prix de Diane), Ulysses (2017 Eclipse and 2017 Juddmonte
International), Alpha Centauri (Irish 1000 Guineas, Coronation Stakes, Falmouth Stakes and Prix du
Haras de Fresnay-le-Buffard, all in 2018), Study Of Man (2018 Prix du Jockey Club) and Albigna (2019 Prix
Marcel Boussac).

David O’Farrell
Serves as Manager of Ocala Stud – the farm that his grandfather, Joe O’Farrell started in 1956 and is
currently the oldest active thoroughbred farm in the state of FL. The farm is among the leading stallion,
breeding, and training operations in the nation and sells its entire crop each year at the two year old in
training sales. The farm currently stands 12 stallions, owns approximately 50 broodmares, and breaks
approximately 100 yearlings each year for clients in addition to the farm’s crop. Ocala Stud sold its first
entire crop of juveniles in 1958, a tradition that the farm continues to this day.

Ocala Stud has bred and sold more than 155 stakes winners to date and was named TOBA’s 2012
National Breeder of the Year.

A graduate of Erskine College, David is involved in all aspects of Ocala Stud’s operations including:
breeding, training, 2 year old sales consignment, stallion management, stallion season sales, stallion
recruitment, broodmare acquisition, advertising, etc. He also serves on the TAA Board of Directors and is
the Vice Chairman of TOBA.

David and his wife Allison have three children, Maggie (11), Annie (9), & John (7).

Bill Oppenheim
Bill Oppenheim is considered one of the industry’s leading analysts of stallion performance and the
auction marketplace. He has been professionally active in the thoroughbred industry for over 45 years.
In 1979 he moved to Lexington and ran his fortnightly subscription newsletter, Racing Update, which
operated completely independently of advertising, and pioneered innovations as diverse as analysis by
sire crop, and barn order lists for use at sales. He sold Racing Update in 1995. He has since been a
columnist for Thoroughbred Daily News and The Blood-Horse, is co-publisher of the Stallion Spectator
Ratings (SSR) books, and works as a private consultant on industry matters. He was elected as a
Breeders’ Cup Member in 2008, and served on the Breeders’ Cup Board of Directors 2013-2017.

Dr. J. David Richardson
Dr. Richardson is a native Kentuckian who has been active in the thoroughbred horse business with
ownership and breeding for over 45 years. He has served as President of the Kentucky Thoroughbred
Association/Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders from 1997-2000 and 2008-2009. Dr.
Richardson is a member of The Jockey Club and has been recognized for his humanitarian work on the
promotion of health and welfare initiatives on the backside of Kentucky racetracks. He has served as the
Chair of TOBA and the American Graded Stakes Committee. He is a Trustee of BloodHorse and is on the
Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Advisory Committee to the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission,
and he served eight years on the Kentucky Racing Commission. He was honored as the Midwest Owner
of the Year by TOBA several years ago. He also served on the Board of the Breeders’ Cup.

Dr. Richardson has 18 broodmares and approximately a dozen horses currently in training. He has
owned or bred over 20 stakes winners.

Professionally, Dr. Richardson is a surgeon who received his M.D. degree from the University of
Kentucky, and completed surgical training in Texas. He is Professor and Vice Chairman at the University
of Louisville and is Chief of Surgery at University of Louisville Hospital. He has served as President of
numerous surgical organizations and is Past President of the American College of Surgeons, which is the
largest surgical organizations in the world with over 85,000 members.

Bernie Sams
Bernie has been involved in the Thoroughbred industry for over 40 years in many different capacities.
He started off working directly with yearlings and stallions both domestically and abroad before
transitioning to management positions.

In the mid-1980’s, Bernie went to work for Matchmaker Breeders Exchange, followed by Gainesway
Farm and Reynolds Bell Thoroughbred Services as a bloodstock agent and dealing with stallion seasons
and shares.

Bernie is currently the Bloodstock Director and Syndicate Manager at Claiborne Farm, a position he
began in 2003. Claiborne Farm has been one of the leading Thoroughbred Farms for the past 110 years.

He lives in Lexington, KY with his wife and three children.

Alex Solis II
Alex Solis II is a partner in Solis/Litt Bloodstock and the Director of Bloodstock at Gainesway Farm. He is
a third-generation horseman following in the footsteps of his Hall of Fame father, jockey Alex Solis and
grandfather, Bert Sonnier, a leading trainer who campaigned the likes of champion Nodouble and
Meadowlake.

Alex grew up at the racetrack and has worked with some of the finest horsemen in the industry. Richard
Mandella, Bruce Headley, and Mel Stute in California and John Hall at Taylor Made Farm are a few
who've made a lasting impact on his development.

Alex graduated from Cal Poly Pomona in 2007 with a BA in Finance. While in school, Alex also began his
career in the bloodstock business purchasing multiple grade one winner Daytona and the future book
favorite for the Kentucky Derby, The Pamplemousse.

In 2010, Alex combined with KY agent Jason Litt to form Solis/Litt Bloodstock. Solis/Litt Bloodstock
provides full-service management with access to world-class trainers. The business has expanded
Internationally in recent years, and now includes the trading of Stallion Shares and management of
Breeding/Racing portfolios.

The Thoroughbred Times, a leading industry weekly magazine, named Alex one of "The Forty under
Forty in the Thoroughbred Industry." He has been the subject of features on TVG, HRTV, LA Times, and
Bloodhorse.

Since 2004, Alex has been involved in 264 horse transactions with achievements that include 11 Grade-
One winners, 42 Stakes Winners and 84 Stakes Placed horses; including two times Breeders' Cup winner
Mizdirection, Kentucky Derby winner Country House and Champions Covfefe and Shared Belief.

Alex currently resides in Lexington, KY with his wife Brittany and their two sons. He enjoys golfing,
travel, and is an all-around sports enthusiast.

Oliver (Olly) Tait
Olly Tait has always been involved in horse racing.

A qualified accountant, he worked for KPMG in Sydney prior to joining Darley, Sheikh Mohammed’s
global racing and breeding organisation. Over a period of 15 years, he ran Darley in Australia, Japan and
the U.S.A before overseeing its operations globally as its C.O.O. whilst being based in Newmarket,
England.

Since 2017, Olly and his wife Amber have owned and operated Twin Hills Stud in Australia. Twin Hills is
the home to four stallions, a significant broodmare band and is a consignor at the major Australian
thoroughbred sales. They also breed and sell horses in the U.S.A.

Olly previously served on the Breeders’ Cup Board of Director’s from 2009 to 2013.

He and his family live on their stud farm in New South Wales, Australia.

W. Elliott Walden
Elliott is a third generation horseman from a noted Kentucky family entrenched in thoroughbred
breeding and racing. He is the son of the late Ben Walden, Sr. formerly of Dearborn Farm. His brother
Ben Walden, Jr is also a noted horseman in Kentucky who has established several successful breeding
operations most notably Vinery.

Elliott took out his trainers license in 1985 and was a three-time leading trainer at Churchill Downs, as
well as two-time leading trainer at Keeneland. Walden rose to the pinnacle of the sport in 1998 when he
trained Belmont Stakes (G1) winner Victory Gallop who returned at 4 to win both the Whitney Handicap
(G1) and the Stephen Foster Handicap (G2) and was named Eclipse Champion Older Horse in 1999.
Elliott finished 1999 ranked #3 in the nation with his career best season earnings of $7.2 million.

In July 2005, Elliott changed roles, going from private trainer to Racing Manager within the WinStar
organization. In December of 2005, Walden was elevated to the role of Vice President of Win Star Farm
where he was responsible for management oversight, both on and off the farm. In November of 2010,
Elliott was promoted to President and CEO of WinStar Farm. Notwithstanding his expanded role at the
farm, he remains deeply involved in the management of racing operations. Under his leadership, the
farm has grown to over 2600 acres, 600 horses, expanded the stallion roster and campaigned 26 graded
stakes winner, including Triple Crown champion, Justify.

Since 2012, Elliott has served as a Breeders’ Cup Board Member, being elected as a Director in 2013. He
has been chairman of the Finance and Audit Committee and supported the Breeders’ Cup racing
program through many WinStar partnerships. He values the tremendous influence of Breeders’ Cup and
remains committed to making a difference in the thoroughbred racing industry.

Wesley Ward
Wesley Ward was born into a racing family and has been involved in the equine industry his whole
life. At age 12, he began riding races on the county fair circuits in Montana and Washington (state). By
16, Ward had made his way across the country to the bright lights of New York City competing at
Aqueduct, Belmont & Saratoga. The teenage-rider took the Big Apple by storm, winning over 400 races
before his 17th birthday and capturing the 1984 Eclipse Award as outstanding apprentice jockey. Soon
after, he continued his career overseas riding throughout Europe and Asia. The 5’10” kid knew neither
time nor the scale was on his side.

Ward hung up his tack in 1989 and prepared for his next challenge. He didn’t have to travel far to find it.
He replaced his jockey license with a trainer’s badge, and in 1991 his second career began. Again, Ward
found early success, quickly earning the reputation as one of the best juvenile trainers in the country.
His small California based stable started to grow.

The expansion pushed him East. Ward set up stables in both Florida and Kentucky, and along the way he
added owner and breeder to his job title. He continued to pile up victories, enough to give him the
confidence to head back overseas and compete at Royal Ascot. On June 16, 2009, Strike The Tiger, co-
bred by Ward, triumphed in the Windsor Castle Stakes. This victory marked the first time an American
based trainer had won a race in the history of the prestigious meet. A year later, Ward added to his
international success when his homebred Madman Diaries was named two-year-old Canadian
Champion. In 2014, Ward broke thru on the domestic front, winning two Breeders’ Cup races, first with
Coolmore owned Hootenanny in the Juvenile Turf followed by his horse Judy the Beauty in the Filly and
Mare Sprint.

In his nearly 30 year career, Ward has won over 1,800 races. He has trained ten Royal Ascot winners,
four champions, three Breeders’ Cup winners and has won numerous training titles including four at
Keeneland. His Ward Ranch is the home to over 30 broodmares and two stallions, Hootenanny and
Iqbaal. He is a true ambassador of the sport, achieving optimal results with integrity and perseverance.
He has shared his success with owners from across the globe and his loyal and dedicated staff. His
signature smile and unmitigated enthusiasm has made him a fan favorite and icon in the sport of horse
racing.

Barry Weisbord
After attending the University of Pennsylvania, Weisbord began his racing career working on the
backstretch for trainers Allen Jerkens and Walter Kelley in 1972. He took out a trainer's license in 1974,
operating a small stable in the Northeast before turning to bloodstock management with the creation of
Executive Bloodstock Management Corp. in 1979.

In the ensuing years, he co-established the Matchmaker Breeders' Exchange, and served as architect and
president of the American Championship Racing Series. In 1993, he purchased a controlling interest in
the Thoroughbred Daily News, moving it from Kentucky to New Jersey. It developed into the most
influential and widely read daily Thoroughbred eNewspaper with an audience of over 1.75 million
unique worldwide readers annually. Weisbord retired as Publisher and CEO in 2018.

In 2003, Weisbord was introduced to Trakus, a cutting-edge tracking technology originally applied to
hockey. Weisbord was instrumental in the application of that technology to horse racing. Weisbord is
now Trakus's Chairman of the Board, and has helped to develop the technology to allow the public to
better follow their horse graphically during the race and to deliver more detailed post-race data. Trakus
systems are currently installed in leading racetracks throughout the world, including all Breeders' Cup
host tracks.

A Philadelphia native, Weisbord has owned and bred racehorses, and has been a commercial
thoroughbred breeder for over 40 years. He continues to operate a small racing stable, mostly in the
New York and New Jersey area, highlighted by his co-ownership of 1989 Eclipse-Award winning sprinter
and 1990 Breeders' Cup Sprint winner Safely Kept, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2011. He is
also an active participant in stallion investment and stallion portfolio management.

In June, 2008, he was elected to the board of the Breeders' Cup Limited Members and Trustees and co-
chaired the Enhanced Experience Committee through the 2015 event at Keeneland. He is currently still a
member of the Enhanced Experience, Marketing, Racing and Governance Committees.

Bradley S. Weisbord
In 2014, Bradley founded BSW Bloodstock, a bloodstock and consulting agency that manages the racing
operations of many top owners. Since inception, BSW has promoted and created over $70,000,000 of
new investment in the horse business and currently has 500+ horses under management. BSW clients
have enjoyed the success of over 75 Grade 1 victories including classic wins in the Kentucky Derby
(Justify), Kentucky Oaks (Monomoy Girl), Preakness (Exaggerator, Justify), Belmont Stakes (Creator,
Justify) and Breeders’ Cup Races (British Idiom, Monomoy Girl, More Than Real, Wavell Avenue and
Uni). In 2020, the company was renamed BSW/Crow streamlining the successes of the company’s public
auction and private purchases.

In July 2017, Bradley Weisbord and Liz Crow launched a new sales consignment, ELiTE Sales, focusing
primarily on the sale of top-level racing/broodmare prospects most of which they managed on the
racetrack.

Prior to starting BSW Bloodstock, Weisbord held management positions at both Zayat Stables and Team
Valor International, both of which were nominated for an Eclipse Award for leading owner during his
tenure.

Weisbord was voted onto the prestigious Breeders’ Cup Board in June of 2014 at the age of 28. He was
the youngest member to ever get elected in the boards 30+ year history. In his 4-year term, he was an
active board participant working hard to grow the sport and the event that is Breeders’ Cup week. He
paid particular attention to the race partnership experience and the enhanced experience committee
focusing on enhancing the pre-race events.

In June 2018, Weisbord was not re-elected to the Breeders’ Cup board, missing by 9 votes.

Since 2010, BSW managed clients have run over 60 horses in Breeders’ Cup races.

Aron Wellman
At the age of 8, Aron Wellman convinced a local Southern California trainer to allow him to tag along to
the backside of Del Mar. From 4:30am the next morning until he graduated from Law School at the age
of 24, Wellman worked every summer for trainers, starting by mucking stalls, to walking hots, to
becoming the groom of Vielle Vigne, the winner of the Grade 2, Chula Vista Stakes in 1991 (age 14) and
ultimately serving as an assistant trainer.

Wellman graduated from the University of California Santa Barbara in 1999 after having played 4 years
of Division I collegiate soccer. From there, Wellman attended Southwestern University Law School and
graduated in 2002. He passed the California Bar Exam that summer and set out on a path in the legal
profession where he practiced as a trial attorney for a boutique litigation defense firm in Los Angeles.

While practicing law, Wellman dabbled in forming racing partnerships and after a few years of
considerable success, left his law practice at the beginning of 2008 to become the Vice President of
Team Valor. After 3 ½ years as the VP of Team Valor, during which time the stable won a Breeders’ Cup
race in 2010 and the 2011 Kentucky Derby, Wellman struck out on his own and launched Eclipse
Thoroughbred Partners.

Since its inception, Eclipse has become an industry leader in the partnership space, having Won 64 Black
Type races, including12 Grade 1’s with 10 individual horses. Eclipse has won Classics in the United
States (2017 Belmont Stakes with Tapwrit) and Australia (2017 Australian Oaks with Pinot).

In 2019, Eclipse combined with Antony Beck’s Gainesway Stable to capture the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile
Fillies Turf with Sharing.

In 2013, when the legendary Cot Campbell hung up his tack, Eclipse formed a joint venture with famed
Dogwood Stable.

Wellman resides in Rancho Santa Fe, California with his wife Talya, daughter Sadie (12) and son Jack (8).