•           Education: B.A. degree from University of Kentucky and J.D. degree from Northern Kentucky University's Salmon P. Chase College of Law

•           Professional Background: Chairman and CEO of Lunsford Capital, LLC, a Louisville-headquartered private investment company. Founder and former chairman and CEO of Ventas, Inc., one of the nation’s largest health-care real estate investment companies . •Served as Kentucky’s Commerce Secretary from 1980-’83 under Gov. John Y. Brown

•           Ran for Governor of Kentucky in 2003 and 2007, and Senator in 2008
•           Serves as chairman of Deyta, Inc., a company which measures customer and employee satisfaction and performance levels, and also as a member of the Board of Directors of Aerocare Holdings, Inc., a provider of respiratory therapy services
•           Racing Background: Lunsford caught the racing bug while attending the University of Kentucky
•           Breeding/Racing Operation: He entered the racing game as an owner with claiming horses in the late 1980s, including $15,000 pick-ups Cornstalk Road and Dross, both of whom went on to earn more than $100,000. As a breeder he’s best known for Grade 1 winner Golden Missile (Pimlico Special), who earned $2.1 million and finished third in the 1999 Breeders’ Cup Classic. Top horses raced include Fountain of Youth winner First Samurai (in partnership with Lansdon Robbins), Madcap Escapade, a top-class sprinter he later sold for $6 million, and homebred Vision and Verse, 1999 Travers and Belmont Stakes runner-up.