•           Born: Oct. 9, 1964, New York, N.Y.

•           Family: wife, actress Stephanie March; daughter Sophie from a previous marriage

Founded in 1983 by Boston businessman and lifelong horseman Don Little, Centennial’s generally purchases 10-15 well-bred colts a year from the premier thoroughbred auctions of North America.  The stable currently has horses with trainers Jimmy Jerkens, Michael Matz and Rodney Jenkins.  

•           The stable name for Seth Hancock of Paris, Ky., and his family

•           Claiborne Farm is located on 2,700 acres

•           Racing stable of Bobby Hurley, 37, born and raised in Jersey City, N.J. best known as a college and pro basketball player

•           Played college ball at Duke University from 1989-1993, during which time he became the NCAA all-time assist leader and led the Blue Devils to a national championship.

•           Orlando-area chairman of United Medical Corp., originally from Pensacola, Fla.

•           Family: wife Irene, children Danielle, Deirdre and David

•           The wife of the late Tommy Valando, who was a successful Broadway music publisher working for BMI who helped launch some of the stage's most successful shows

•           Born in Fort Worth, Tex., she now lives in Greenwich, Conn., and Palm Beach, Fla.
•           Together the two jumped into horse racing with Fly So Free and struck gold immediately when the horse won the 1990 Champagne and Breeders' Cup Juvenile and swept Gulfstream's Kentucky Derby preps including the Florida Derby

•           Legendary name in racing through great upsets of top horses since the 1960s

•           Originally owned wholly by Jack Dryfus, the famed Wall Street financier and founder of the Dreyfus Funds, the farm was sold to Roy Lerman of Ocala, Fla., who has maintained the facility for his own horses while Dreyfus runs his racing stable out of Craig Wheeler Thoroughbreds.?Wheeler managed Hobeau Farm for 28 years

•           Residences: Hollywood, Fla. and Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.

•           Family: daughters Debra and Cynthia were champion saddlebred riders, and son Jonathan is a show jumper who owned Shinto, a horse who competed in the Olympics

•           Resident of Rumson, N.J. has been retired from Wall Street trading with Donaldson, Luskin & Jenrette since 1998

•           First got into ownership 25 years ago and has been a racing fan his whole life
•           Started out mainly in partnerships, notably with Phantom House Stable, who raced Tale of the Cat and sold him for $12.9 million as a stallion

•           Principal business: Chairman and CEO of Shields & Co., an investment banking firm that is a member of the New York Stock Exchange

•           Organizations: Shields is a vice chairman of the board of trustees of the New York Racing Association, and serves on the boards of trustees of the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation, the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, and the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association. Member of The Jockey Club and founding member of the National Thoroughbred Association.

•           Gulfstream Park’s leading owners of 2009, when they registered 16 victories from 59 starts.

•           They are natives of Eastern Kentucky and now live on Ramsey Farm near Lexington
•           Mr. Ramsey achieved his first business success buying and selling real estate in Kentucky in the ‘70s and ‘80s. In the ‘90s, he accumulated a string of cellular telephone franchises along Interstate 75 in Georgia and Kentucky.

•           Stable name of Roy and Gretchen Jackson of West Grove, Pa..

•           Education: Both graduiated from the University of Pennsylvania
•           Professional Background: Roy has spent much of his life in the game of baseball, serving from 1983-2000 as president of Convest, Inc., a firm that represented professional ballplayers. He also served as past president of minor league baseball leagues and as a club owner he owned minor league teams in York, Pa. (Pirates) and Tucson, Ariz. (Toros)

•           Stable name for Charlotte Weber, the granddaughter of Campbell Soup founder John T. Dorrance. Her family still owns much of the company's stock.

•           Graduate of the University of Paris, with a bachelor of arts and science degree.
•           She owns Live Oak Stud farm in Ocala and Live Oak Properties.

•           Englishman is one of the leading owners worldwide and a partner with the powerful Coolmore organization

•           Went from being a hairdresser to a betting shop clerk all the way to heading the chain of Prince Arthur bookmakers before selling out in 1996 for $50 million
•           More recently has invested in health clubs and Internet gambling ventures, making him 118th on the Times of London's 2007 Rich List

•           Born 1958, originally from Warren, NJ, owns Brooklyn-based Truck-Rite Corp., a trucking business

•           Graduate of Kings College in Pennsylvania
•           Sold 75% of Big Brown to IEAH Stables for $3 million after the colt's first start in 2007. He named the colt in honor of United Parcel Service, with whom his trucking company did work

•           Received a Doctor of Humane Letters Degree, honoris causa, from alma mater Iona College in 2000 ... A member of Iona’s Board of Trustees, LaPenta donated $7 million toward the construction of the college’s LaPenta Student Union Building. LaPenta’s silks are maroon and gold, in honor of his alma mater

•           Professional Background: Chairman of the board, president and CEO of L-1 Identity Solutions, a provider of solutions and services that protect personal identities and assets. L-1 Identity Solutions is based in Stamford, Conn. LaPenta is the co-founder and former president and CFO of L-3 Communications Corporation, a provider of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems. LaPenta had previously worked as a vice president of Lockheed Martin Corp.

•           Racing stable of Jack and Laurie Wolf who became  owners in 2000, and have already found great success with the likes of 2002 Florida Derby and 2003 Donn Handicap winner Harlan’s Holiday and 2004 champion 3-year-old filly Ashado

•           Jack Wolf was a hedge-fund manager with Columbus Partners in Atlanta
•           He graduated from Murray State where he attended on a football scholarship and later taught there for seven years as a graduate assistant

•           Chairman of Bessemer Trust Co., and prominent leader with The Jockey Club, T.O.B.A., Breeders' Cup, Keeneland, and the NTRA

From Butler, Md., he is the son of Barbara Phipps Janney and Stuart S. Janney Jr.

•           Racing syndicate based in New Jersey headed by Terry Finley, who has been involved in the Thoroughbred industry for more than 22 years

•           A graduate of West Point, Finley is a former U.S. Army Airborne Ranger
•           Also holds an MSBA from Boston University.