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| Overbrook Farm |
Stats Updated Through: 11/19/2009
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| 2009 Stats: | | Starts | | 88 | | 1st-2nd-3rd | | 16-10-13 | | Earnings (Rank) | | $464,484 (270) | | Win % (In-The-Money %) | | 18% (44%) |
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- Owner(s): Family of William T. Young
- Location: Overbrook Farm, near Lexington, Ky., was founded by the late William T. Young, who passed away Jan. 12, 2004 ... The 2,300-plus acre full-service facility is now under the leadership of his son Bill Young Jr. (managing owner) and daughter Lucy Young-Hamilton, and grandson Chris Young (son of Bill Jr.), who is Overbrook's racing manager ... Bill Young Jr. and Chris Young live in Lexington, Ky.; Lucy maintains residences at the farm and in France. She is the widow of legendary French trainer Francois Boutin and in 2004 married "New Yorker" magazine cartoonist William Hamilton
- Professional Background: William T. Young was an amazing American business success story. The 1939 University of Kentucky graduate and U.S. Army veteran founded W.T. Young Foods Inc. in 1946 in Lexington, and began manufacturing peanut butter under brand name Big Top. Young continued to head the company after it was sold in June 1955 to Procter & Gamble, which changed the name of the peanut butter to Jif … Other business interests included soft drinks (Royal Crown Cola), general warehousing under the W.T. Young Storage name, and trucking, as Lexington Cartage … Always active in educational and civic concerns, Young contributed $5 million to the University of Kentucky for its main library, which now bears his name. He was a director emeritus of Churchill Downs and of the Breeders' Cup, and a member and former steward of The Jockey Club, elected in 1989. He could often be seen at the UK basketball games at Rupp Arena and was inducted into the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996
- Web site: www.overbrookfarm.com
- Breeding/Racing Operation: W.T. Young was named 1994 Eclipse Award winner as nation's outstanding breeder, and honored by the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association as 1999 Breeder of the Year ... Overbrook homebreds have been Eclipse Award winners four times: Flanders (2YO Filly, 1994), Golden Attraction (2YO Filly, 1995), Boston Harbor (2YO Male, 1996) and Surfside (3YO Filly, 2000); Overbrook also was co-owner of Timber Country, outstanding 2YO Male in 1994 … Overbrook enjoyed a mountain of success in the '80s and '90s. Along with the farm's main trainer, D. Wayne Lukas, Overbrook's iconic silks were seen at nearly every track in the country and their horses won almost every major stakes offered ... Boston Harbor, 1996 Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner, set an all-time juvenile earnings record of $1,928,605, including a $1 million bonus for winning four stakes on the Kentucky circuit. The previous earnings record for a 2-year-old had been set by Young's Mountain Cat, whose bankroll of $1,460,627 in 1992 included the same bonus won by Boston Harbor ... Current Overbrook stallions include 1999 Breeders' Cup Classic champion Cat Thief and 1996 Kentucky Derby winner Grindstone … The farm stood legendary sire Storm Cat, who was pensioned in 2008 at the age of 25, due to a decline in fertility. His 2008 fee had dropped to $300,000, down from the $500,000 that he commanded from 2002 to 2007. In 2008, he covered over 30 mares with a reported three in foal ... Undoubtedly, America's most influential stallion, the son of Storm Bird has sired 160 stakes winners (12%) include 98 graded or group stakes winners and 31 Grade or Group 1 winners ... His lofty success carried into the auction arena. He accounted for the year’s top-priced yearling five times in six years from 2000 to ’05, including recent group stakes winner Jalil, who brought $9.7-million at the ’05 Keeneland September yearling sale ... He is the sire of four Breeders' Cup winners – Sweet Catomine, Storm Flag Flying, Cat Thief and Desert Stormer ... Through May 12, 2008 Storm Cat’s progeny had earned $112,209,693, the all-time record for a North American sire … The farm's broodmare band numbers around 100 … While Young's involvement in the industry dates to the 1970s, the development of Overbrook Farm and the acquisition of broodmares occurred principally in the early 1980s, beginning with an initial 110-acre tract that expanded with the purchase of adjoining property … Overbrook's more-recent top-class performers include stakes-winning Clock Stopper, a graded stakes winner in 2005 with earnings of $800,000, and Storm Surge, winner of the 2005 Lecomte Stakes and third-place finisher in the Louisiana Derby and Coolmore Lexington.
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NOTE: Stats include North American and selected international races. Click here to view selected international race list.
Biographies on jockeys, trainers and owners are from the Breeders' Cup World Championships events from 2001 through 2009, and are intended as informational resources. Biographies will be updated if an individual is again a participant in the Breeders' Cup World Championships.
Biographies are available for most horses appearing in the top 100 money earnings list, and/or for those who are frequently making headlines in the news starting with the 2006 Triple Crown season.
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