Family: sons Chester Jr. and Christopher and daughter Rachel

Chester was born in Pinelawn, N.Y. Graduate of Farmingdale (N.Y.) High School in 1953

Owner, president and CEO of Clifford Broman & Son, Inc., a general contracting corporation in West Babylon, N.Y.

On the Board of Directors for the Long Island Contractors Association and holds interests in several other Long Island general-contracting businesses

Family has always enjoyed riding horses. In the mid 1990s, he decided to get into racing

Purchased Chester Farms in Chestertown, N.Y., in 1995. The farm is 300 acres, with 100 acres of pas-ture. He has approximately 20 broodmares and approximately 20 horses in training

Member of the New York Racing Association since 1998

Biggest star: Friends Lake, winner of the 2004 Florida Derby and 15th in the Kentucky Derby