2022 Member Election Candidate Biographies - Prepared May 24, 2022

2022 Member Election
Candidate Biographies

  Prepared May 24, 2022

Rory Babich
Rory Babich is the CEO and President of St. Elias Stables, the Thoroughbred racing and breeding
operation of Vinnie and Teresa Viola. Rory has worked with the Violas since 2014 in a variety of
capacities, including previously serving as the CEO of the NHL’s Florida Panthers and the team’s arena
where he was responsible for restructuring the business after the Violas purchased the team.

Rory brings a broad range of diverse experience to his position at St. Elias Stables in addition to the
experience he gained as CEO of a professional sports team and entertainment business. He previously
served as the COO of a leading international hedge fund group and Head of Legal for the global asset
management division of a large European financial services company. Rory began his career as an
international corporate lawyer in New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo. He currently serves on the Board of
Advisors for Penn Carey Law School.

St. Elias Stables continues to expand its commitment to the sport and the welfare of its athletes,
including funding initiatives to support aftercare, enhance safety and promote the sport. Since its
formation, St. Elias Stables has developed close relationships with a number of farms, breeders,
racehorse owners, consignors, bloodstock agents, leading Thoroughbred organizations and other
participants in the sport. In recent years, it has substantially increased the number of racehorses and
broodmares in its stable, sent several horses it raced to stud, invested in a number of other incoming
and proven stallions and expanded its’ breeding operation to Europe. St. Elias‐raced colts that are now
at stud include Always Dreaming (2017 Kentucky Derby winner), Army Mule (2018 Carter Handicap
winner), Known Agenda (2021 Florida Derby winner), Liam’s Map (2015 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner
and Woodward Stakes winner) and Vino Rosso (2019 Champion Older Dirt Male Eclipse Award winner,
Breeders’ Cup Classic winner and Santa Anita Gold Cup Winner).

St. Elias Stables continues to be excited about the future of the Thoroughbred industry and believes that
there are significant growth opportunities for the sport. The organization is proud to be associated with
the sport, has great respect for its rich history and tradition and seeks to operate with the highest
standards for integrity, fair play and safety.

Antony Beck
Antony Beck is owner of Gainesway, a historic stallion station and breeding farm in Lexington, Kentucky.
Beck has had a lifelong passion for thoroughbreds and has been a prominent leader in the thoroughbred
business for more than 25 years.

Born in Britain into a racing family, Beck graduated with honors from London University. He gained his
initial industry experience managing thoroughbred studs for his father, Graham Beck, in South Africa.
After his family purchased Gainesway in 1989, Beck moved to the property, where he and his wife,
Angela, have raised their five children: Emma, William, Andrew, Henry, and Lily.

At Gainesway, Beck has been instrumental in acquiring and managing successful stallions such as Empire
Maker, Mr. Greeley, and Tapit – North America’s leading sire in 2014, 2015, and 2016. Also, under
Beck’s leadership, Gainesway has emerged as an elite consignor of horses at auction, ranking among the
top four North American consignors by gross sales for almost ten years.

In addition to his role as Vice‐Chairman on The Breeders’ Cup Board of Directors, Beck is Chairman of
the Breeders’ Cup Investment Committee, a member of the Breeders’ Cup Governance, Growth
Opportunities, and Racing and Nominations Committees, a member of The Jockey Club and he serves on
Keeneland’s Advisory Board.

Beck remains committed to industry improvement and has been outspoken on issues of raising
medication standards and public perception of horse racing.

Gatewood Bell
Prominent Central Kentucky horseman and noted bloodstock adviser Gatewood Bell became
Keeneland’s Vice President of Racing in February 2021.

Raised on his family’s Jonabell Farm in Lexington, Bell received a finance degree with honors from the
University of Kentucky in 2004. After graduation, he worked for trainer Kiaran McLaughlin for three
seasons in Florida, Kentucky and New York. He also represented jockey Fernando Jara as an agent on
the East Coast.

In 2011, Bell founded Cromwell Bloodstock, a full‐service bloodstock agency and consulting firm named
after a company owned by his grandfather, John A. Bell, and has served as its president for the past
decade. He is also a member of The Jockey Club and previously served on the Kentucky Horse Racing
Commission and as the U.S. representative for Goffs Sales of Ireland.

Gatewood and his wife, Lauren, have three children: Eloise, Daisy and Gus.

Christian Black
Christian Black has been involved in the US equine industry since 2006. In 2010 he established and
partnered in Blackstone Farm LLC.

Blackstone Farm LLC started as a small commercial breeding operation with five broodmares. Under
Christian’s management and leadership, Blackstone Farm LLC is today the home of more than fifty plus
broodmares.

Blackstone Farm LLC has since its beginning been a prominent seller at Fasig‐Tipton Saratoga, November
Evening of the Stars, July sales as well as the Keeneland September and November sales, book 1 and 2.
Through the Blackstone Farm LLC partnership, Christian has been breeding multi graded stakes winner
and millionaire Tom’s Ready, grade 3 winners Dark Nile, The Critical Way and stakes winners, Bronx
Beauty, and Dance Code among others. The forementioned together with other stakes winners has been
named Champion Pennsylvania 2‐year‐old male, 2‐year‐old female, Champion male turf horse,
Champion male and female sprinter and older horse.

Blackstone Farm has been named Pennsylvania Breeder of the year in 2019, 2020 and 2021.

Christian believes the Breeders’ Cup event could become a major player on the international sports
calendar and would like to be part of introducing the Breeders’ Cup to new generations, through
innovative technology and thinking, always with respect for the sports history and values in mind.

Christian believes the rotation of Breeders’ Cup host sites/tracks should be more diversified, including
visiting major racing states, such as New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Florida on a more regular
schedule.

Case Clay
Case Clay is currently Chief Commercial Officer at Three Chimneys Farm and Owner of Case Clay
Thoroughbred Management, LLC. In addition to his duties at Three Chimneys, he also manages the
racing and breeding operations for Willis Horton Racing, LLC and is an American Representative for
Arrowfield Stud in Australia, among other clients.

Case has served on the Breeders’ Cup Enhanced Experience Committee and the Racing and Nominations
Committee and is proud to have played an integral part in the conception of the inaugural Champions
Terrace.

He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Keeneland Association and serves as Chair of KEEP.

Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper was born into the thoroughbred industry and has been actively involved in it for well over
35 years. Alan is the Racing Manager to the Niarchos Family, perhaps better known in the United States
as Flaxman Holdings Ltd and previously worked at Goffs, Ireland’s leading bloodstock sales company
having earlier gained industry experience on farms in France and Argentina before an internship at
Fasig‐Tipton.

Alan has had a strong affinity with the Breeders’ Cup since the mid‐eighties and has been associated
with six winners of the Mile; Miesque (x2), Spinning World, Domedriver, Six Perfections and Karakontie,
as well as Main Sequence who scored in the Turf in 2014.

Everett Dobson
Everett Dobson splits his time between Kentucky and Oklahoma. He graduated with a B.A. in Economics
from Southwestern Oklahoma State University. He is the Executive Chairman of Dobson Fiber, a 5,000‐
mile fiber optic transport company based in Oklahoma City. He is also a minority owner of the OKC
Thunder NBA team and serves on their Board of Directors.

Everett is a member of the Jockey Club in addition to the Breeders’ Cup. He is on the Board of Trustees
for TOBA, serves on the Executive Committee and is the current Chairman of the American Graded
Stakes Committee. He is also a Trustee of The Keeneland Association.

Everett is the owner of Candy Meadows Farm, a broodmare farm with about 30 mares under care in
Lexington, Kentucky. He races under Cheyenne Stables. Graded stakes winners include Mastery,
Madefromlucky, Caleb’s Posse, Mystical Star, Genre, Cowboy Culture, Olympiad, and Scalding.

Everett is enthusiastic to assist the Breeders’ Cup Board of Directors in continuing to make the Breeders’
Cup the best 2‐day racing event in the world.

William S. Farish, Jr.
Bill Farish was voted Chairman of the Board of Breeders’ Cup Limited from 2006 through 2012 and then
again from 2013 through 2017. The Farish family owns Lane’s End Farm, located in Central Kentucky.
Lane’s End is one of the foremost full‐service breeding establishments in the industry.

During his first chairmanship, Farish oversaw dramatic changes in the Breeders’ Cup, foremost among
them, was the growth of the Breeders’ Cup from a single day $14 million prize money event to a two‐
day Championship comprised of 13 races, with purses and awards totaling $26 million.

It was also during this period that the Breeders’ Cup Challenge series of automatic qualifying races was
created; and organization passed several security and safety measures, and the banning of steroids from
Breeders’ Cup competition.

Bill currently serves as Chairman of the Horse PAC, the industry’s national Political Action Committee. He
is a Trustee of the Keeneland Association and Steward of The Jockey Club.

Farish, his wife, Kelley, and their family reside at Lane’s End.

H. Greg Goodman
Greg Goodman has been involved in Thoroughbred racing all of his life, he has been an owner and a
breeder for almost 30 years. He is a native Houstonian who attended the University of Texas at Austin
and graduated from the University of Houston. His late father, Harold V. Goodman, owned Brazos T
Farm in Brookshire, Texas where he stood the stallion Manzotti and was named the TOBA Texas breeder
of the year three times. He also served an important role in the passage of pari‐mutuel betting in Texas.

Mr. Goodman and his family own Mt. Brilliant Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. His portfolio consists of 32
mares, 10 of which are graded stakes horses and the dams of six recent or current graded stakes
horses. In addition to the broodmare band, Mr. Goodman and his family have horses in training in the
US with trainer, Michael Stidham, in Europe with trainer, Sir Mark Prescott and in Australia with trainer,
Gai Waterhouse.

Goodman is involved in every aspect of the Thoroughbred business: stallions, broodmares, sales and
racing. He currently serves on the Breeders’ Cup Investment Committee and the Racing and
Nominations Committee.

He is one of the founders and current Treasurer of the Fayette Alliance, Chair of the Fayette Alliance
Foundation, member of the Mt. Brilliant Family Foundation, as well as a former member of the Markey
Cancer Foundation (Vice Chair), TOBA Board of Trustees, Texas Thoroughbred Association,
Thoroughbred Research Institute, Sayre School, University of Texas Health Science Center, Cleveland
Clinic, Goodman Global and Southwest Bank of Texas. His other business interests include investments
and finance.

Jonathan Green
Jonathan Green manages one of the largest racing and breeding operations in the country – D.J. Stable,
LLC. Under his guidance, D.J. Stable has enjoyed international racing success including two Sovereign
Awards, an Eclipse Award, 14 Leading Owner Titles, over 150 Stakes Race victories (including Jaywalk’s
2018 Juvenile Filly Breeders’ Cup) and almost 2,400 overall wins. In addition, D.J. Stable has bred 23
Grade I performers and sold over $80 million of horses at public auction.

His passion for analyzing pedigrees is evident in the successful matings of D.J. Stable’s 29 broodmares.
Currently those mares are in‐foal to American Pharoah, Authentic, Candy Ride, Caravaggio, Charlatan,
Constitution, Essential Quality, Gun Runner, Justify, Maxfield, McKinzie, Medaglia d’Oro, Mendelssohn,
Munnings, Nyquist, Street Sense, Uncle Mo, War of Will and Yaupon.

For the past three years Jonathan has been a host on the TDN Writers' Room Podcast, whose estimated
weekly audience is almost 60,000 listeners. In addition to the podcast, he regularly authors business‐
related articles for the Thoroughbred Daily News. He utilizes these significant platforms to promote
dialogue across the industry.

Jonathan is committed to the sustainability of racing and was elected to both the Florida Horseman’s
Board of Directors and the NYTHA Board of Directors, where he serves as the finance committee
chairperson. He works closely with the next generation, acting as a mentor in the Amplify Horse Racing
Program and donating time to other new owner organizations such as Nexus Racing and the Empire
Racing Club. Jonathan actively promotes the thoroughbred industry as a guest lecturer at numerous
institutions including Babson College, his alma mater Lehigh University and the University of Louisville’s
Equine Industry Program.

Jonathan co‐founded and recently sold a Registered Investment Advisory firm that grew to over $500
million under management. Amongst its clients were some of the top jockeys, trainers, owners,
consignors, breeders and pinhookers. In 2015 he successfully secured the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL
PLANNER™ designation, which is widely recognized as the highest standard of excellence for financial
planners.

Jonathan is committed to improving the safety and enhancing the integrity of the thoroughbred industry
and annually contributes to various thoroughbred aftercare programs.

Fred W. Hertrich, III
In 1975, after graduating from Bucknell University with a BSBA in 1968, Fred Hertrich became the
youngest Ford Dealer in the United States, forming Frederick Ford Mercury in Seaford, Delaware. Today,
he is the President of the Hertrich Family of Automobile Dealerships, which includes 23 retail
Automotive Dealerships, 9 Collision Centers, and a long‐term Leasing Company, ranking them in the top
50 privately owned retail automobile groups in North America.

Fred is also the proprietor of Watercress Farm, a 600‐acre nursery in Paris, Kentucky. Under his
ownership, 17 graded stakes winners and over 80 graded stakes placed or listed winners have been
bred, raised and sold commercially from Watercress Farm. This includes GI winner and champion,
Shamardal, GI Breeders’ Cup winner Rushing Fall, and GI winners Boys of Tosconova, Diversify, Street
Boss, Catholic Boy, and most recently, American Revolution, Beyond Brilliant, Hit The Road, Maxim Rate,
Pinehurst and JuJu’s Map.

Fred is honored to be the past Chairman of the Breeders’ Cup Board of Directors, and is working with
the current Chairman, Board and Management Team to help shepherd the vision of maintaining the
Breeders’ Cup as the leading Thoroughbred race venue and lifestyle event in the world.

The Breeder’s Cup Management, Staff and Board have been instrumental in supporting the HISA
Initiative as well as positioning the Breeder’s Cup as the most recognized brand in Thoroughbred Racing.
Fred believes that as a Board Member, he can aid in these efforts as well as representing nominators in
maximizing their investments in the future of the game.

Jak Knelman
Jak Knelman is seeking his second term at the Breeders’ Cup. As the former Director of Stallions at
Calumet Farm in Lexington, Jak currently advises his family operation, Farfellow Farms. The family farm
campaigned the likes of (G1) Chelsea Flower and (G2) Enjoy the Moment while also breeding (G1) BC
Juvenile Champion Anees, (G1) Lemons Forever, and (G1) Buddha. Jak is a breeder and actively trades in
the bloodstock market.

At 33 years of age, Jak was the 2017 recipient of the inaugural Godolphin TIEA “Newcomer of the Year”
award, and is enthusiastic about the BC’s role in expanding the sport of Thoroughbred racing. With close
ties to both ‘big farm’ and ‘small breeder’ he holds an important perspective as a member.

Jak resides in Lexington with his wife, Alex Hancock, and daughter Elizabeth.

Michael Levinson
Michael Levinson has been involved in equine industry since 2015 when he helped form L&N Racing, LLC
based in Tulsa, OK. For the last 7 years Michael has served as Racing/Stable Manager for L&N Racing,
LLC.

Michael was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after graduating from University of Tulsa in 2004, he
started work in the public accounting industry with Deloitte. After his time at Deloitte he took over as
Controller of LPD Energy Company, LLC in Tulsa, OK. Michael along with his father, Lee Levinson,
brother, Andrew Levinson and family friend Don Nelson formed L&N Racing in 2015. Michael currently
serves as the Racing/Stable Manager for L&N Racing. Michael and his family have been involved in horse
racing since he was 5 years old.

Michael launched L&N Racing in 2015 to invest in thoroughbred horses for racing purposes and future
stallion prospects. Michael and Lee went to their first Keeneland Sale in 2016 where they found future
Kentucky Derby runner‐up Lookin At Lee, whom now stands at Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions in
Saratoga New York. L&N Racing has established itself as a very successful racing partnership.

The highlight of Michael’s time in the thoroughbred industry came at the 2020 Keeneland September
sale when he helped locate 2‐year‐old filly Champion Echo Zulu, who is a half‐brother to grade 1 winner
Echo Town. Below are L&N’s highlighted horses.

Lookin At Lee – Multiple Graded Stakes Placed, 2nd 2017 Kentucky Derby

Tone Broke – 2019 Prince of Wales & Breeders Stakes winner in Canada

Echo Town – 2020 winner of the Grade 1 Allen Jerkins Stakes, Standing at Coolmore

Echo Zulu – 2021 Eclipse Two‐Year‐Old Filly Champion.

M.V. Magnier
MV Magnier oversees the Coolmore bloodstock and racing operation in both Europe and North America.
In addition to having raced 12 Breeders’ Cup winners, Coolmore currently stands 36 Breeders’ Cup
registered stallions in the Northern Hemisphere, including Breeders’ Cup winners, American Pharoah
and Uncle Mo.

MV attends every major bloodstock sale around the world and is a prominent buyer of 2YO’s, yearlings
and breeding stock.

On behalf of Coolmore partners he has signed for the likes of Breeders’ Cup winner Mendelssohn and
current World Champion Three‐Year old, St Mark’s Basilica.

Patrice Merion Miller
Patrice Merion Miller is the Senior Vice President of Equine Biomechanics & Exercise Physiology, Inc.
(www.eqb.com), a Thoroughbred racehorse buying and management service. Patti Miller’s acclaimed
horsemanship has been instrumental in EQB’s success and she serves as an advisor to Houyhnhnm
Stables partnerships.

The daughter of a horseman, Patti Miller began avidly fox hunting, pony racing, and steeplechase racing
in early childhood, eventually becoming one of the nation’s first amateur female jockeys in sanctioned
races. After working for a series of world‐renowned trainers on the East and West Coast, she became a
leading trainer at Delaware Park and has saddled track record holders at a number of major East Coast
racetracks.

A lifetime in the equine industry, Patti is a bloodstock agent with one of the very best records in the
industry overall, an occasional steward at races and a major participant in numerous sports medicine
research projects that led to breakthrough publications in gait analysis and heart scans.

Patti has been a part of owning and training Breeders’ Cup horses, notably as a part of the American
Pharoah team. She has selected, as unraced youngsters, over 20 G1 Stakes winners, 3 Eclipse
champions, including Informed Decision, Forever Together, etc. (see list at www.eqb.com)

She knows racing at its highest levels. She hopes to bring some common sense to the deliberations table
‐‐‐ as well as creative energy, a sense of humor, and an Australian cattle dog support animal.

Pope McLean, Jr
Pope McLean, Jr. is a co‐owner and the business manager of the McLean family’s 1,000‐acre Crestwood
Farm. Crestwood has bred and/or raised over 285 stakes horse since 1970.

A lifelong, hands‐on horseman, Pope is co‐breeder of such stakes horses as Champion XTRA HEAT and
recent G1 winners GOT STORMY and BOWIE’s HERO.

He currently serves on Keeneland’s board and its executive committee. He is a Member of the Jockey
Club. Pope has also served as President of the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association/Kentucky
Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders, Inc.

Pope and his wife Lisa and their family live on Crestwood Farm.

Gavin Murphy
Gavin Murphy graduated with degrees in economics and law from the University of Queensland. Gavin
moved to Sydney in 1990 to continue his legal career and transferred to New York in 1992 with his wife
Catherine where they have lived ever since.

Gavin launched SF Bloodstock as an internationally focused bloodstock investment company in 2008.

Garrett O’Rourke
Garrett O’Rourke was born in Ireland in 1963, where his father Willie was a veterinarian and later
Managing Director of Tattersalls Ireland. O’Rourke moved from Ireland to Kentucky in 1986 and initially
worked for Ashford Stud. He then left to manage Creek View Farm from 1988‐1992. O’Rourke has
managed Juddmonte Farms since 1992.

In 2001 Garrett was awarded Kentucky Farm Manager of the Year and has helped form and is the
President of the Kentucky Equine Management Internship which attracts and coaches future farm
management. He has also served on the boards of Breeders’ Cup, Gluck Equine Research Center, TOBA
and is a Past President of Kentucky Thoroughbred Association (KTA‐KTOB).

O’Rourke graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from University College Dublin in 1985. He
currently resides in Kentucky with his wife Rhonda, an equine veterinarian, and their two daughters Ella
and Aine on their Breffni Farm which has bred recent years stakes winners Catapult, Nashville and
Center Aisle.

Alex Payne
It is an honor to be nominated for election as a Breeders’ Cup member.

Alex Payne grew up at Taylor Made Farm where his passion for the industry began. Immediately after his
time at the University of Kentucky where he was part of the Sigma Nu fraternity, he spent two seasons
breaking and selling two‐year‐olds with Raul Reyes of Kings Equine. Eventually, he made his way to
Churchill to work for Dale Romans for 1 1/2 years before going back to his roots at Taylor Made. Alex
has been a Barn Foreman, Divisional Broodmare Manager, Yearling Manager, Sales Team Leader, and
Thoroughbred Advisor with Taylor Made. He is a current member of the Kentucky Equine Education
Project (KEEP) and a past member of the Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Managers Club (KTFMC).

In his role as a Thoroughbred Advisor, his main objective is to develop close relationships with clients
and represent them through advising on mating decisions and buying and selling horses. Because of
these relationships, he sees how important the Breeders’ Cup is to celebrate the best and brightest in
the equine athletes, breeders, owners, and racing enthusiasts. Alex has been fortunate enough to be a
part of transactions including the dam of Swiss Skydiver, the offspring of Dream of Summer, Abel
Tasman, Miss Sunset, and hopes to continually add to the list with his client’s success for years to come.

As a young person coming up in this industry, he is passionate about getting more people involved with
this great sport. He wants to work to establish a uniform medication policy, provide a greater level of
protection for both the equine and human participants in the sport, and believes in getting free betting
information to the public.

Alex humbly asks for your support in allowing him to put his passion to work for Breeders’ Cup, horse
racing, and the thoroughbred industry at large.

Mike Pons
Mike Pons and his brother, Josh, own and operate both Country Life Farm, and Merryland Farm, located
eight‐miles apart in Maryland. Country Life is home to the top young sires: Divining Rod, Maryland
Leading Second Crop Sire, and Mosler, Maryland’s Top Third‐Year Sire, as well as veteran sire, Friesan
Fire. Merryland features a five‐eighths mile training track and is one of the top regional training centers.

Mike is past president of the Maryland Horse Breeders Association and the Maryland Million Ltd. He is
currently the equine representative on the Maryland Agricultural Board. He’s visited breeding farms
and attended racetracks in: Korea, Russia, England and France, He’s often at the races in Maryland, and
frequently attends the Triple Crown and Breeders’ Cup races, as well as most horse sales in Kentucky,
New York, and Maryland.

He and his wife, Lisa, have three children: Philip, his wife Lindsay, and their son, Nicholas; Elizabeth and
her husband Garrett Forsberg, and son, David.

Daisy Phipps Pulito
Daisy Phipps Pulito has had a longtime involvement in Thoroughbred breeding and racing and is
currently the part owner and racing manager of the Phipps Stable.

The family’s stakes winners through the years have included, among others, Personal Ensign, Easy Goer,
Heavenly Prize, My Flag, Storm Flag Flying, Smuggler, Seeking The Gold and, most recently, Point of
Entry and 2013 Kentucky Derby winner Orb.

She also serves a member of the board of directors of the Grayson‐Jockey Club research foundation,
Keeneland and the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

Previously, she served in a variety of television production capacities through the years with CBS Sports,
The Golf Channel and NTRA/Breeders’ Cup.

Pulito lives in Lexington, KY with her husband David and two children.

Jaime Roth
Jaime Roth is a graduate from the University of Wisconsin‐Madison with a degree in Journalism, as well
as a Masters in Sports Business Management from New York University.

After years of following Thoroughbred racing as a fan, she decided she wanted to get involved at the
business level. In 2012, Jaime and her parents formed LNJ Foxwoods Stables where Jaime helps manage
the day‐to‐day operations. In only 6 short years, the family‐owned operation has emerged as a
competitive racing outfit in the US and abroad.

Jaime also manages all of LNJ's charitable endeavors and is responsible for starting the Horses' First
Fund; an emergency fund at the Thoroughbred Charities of America, where she serves as a board
member.

Jaime is also a board member at the Thoroughbred Women’s Network (TWN) a newly formed
organization focused on encouraging and supporting all women who wish to have an impact in today’s
thoroughbred world via networking and mentoring opportunities.

Tom Ryan

Tom Ryan is presently responsible for managing SF Bloodstock’s North American and European racing
and breeding program. In that role, he has been involved in the acquisition and management of some of
the leading stallions and broodmares in those jurisdictions. Mr. Ryan is also the Racing manager for SF
Racing.

Prior to joining SF Bloodstock, Mr. Ryan was a global bloodstock agent having bought and sold
racehorses, stallions and broodmares on three continents and has been involved in the industry for the
last two decades.

Mr. Ryan was born in County Wexford, Ireland and attended Kildalton Agricultural College.

Shunsuke Yoshida
Shunsuke Yoshida is the third‐generation horseman from Hokkaido Japan. The Yoshida family has been
the centerpiece of the Japanese thoroughbred industry. He is the son of Katsumi Yoshida who runs
Northern Farm. Shunsuke is also the nephew of Teruya Yoshida who runs Shadai Farm and Haruya
Yoshida who runs Oiwake Farm.

Shunsuke has been involved in the industry throughout his life as an equestrian during his student days
and joined Northern Farm in 1998 after graduating from Keio University. He has spent several years in
the US working at Niall Brennan Stables, Lane’s End Farm and Three Chimney Farm. He came back to
Northern Farm in 2000 and has been the executive vice president at Northern Farm since 2015.
Northern Farm is located in Hokkaido, Japan, where nearly 1,000 mares are owed and is one of the
largest breeders in the world.

Shunsuke is also the CEO of Sunday Racing Co., Ltd., one of the most popular syndication ownership
clubs in Japan. Sunday Racing is the owner of Delta Blues (2006 Melbourne Cup winner), Orfevre (2011
Japanese Triple Crown winner), Shahryar (2022 Dubai Sheema Classic winner) and many other
conspicuous racehorses.