2020-2021 MEDIA GUIDE SECTION 3 PAGE 1 2020 Pegasus Jockeys OWNERS, TRAINERS & JOCKEYS Owner Profiles PAGE 2 ARINDEL • Cohen was Chairman, CEO and Managing • During the 2015-16 Championship meet, Alan Cohen owns Arindel Farm in Ocala, Fla. Partner of an investment group that purchased Al Shaqab ranked fifth in purses won with A holder of several degrees from the University of the Florida Panthers in 2001. He sold majority $601,690 while winning at a 29 percent clip. Florida, the business executive founded several interest in 2009. Mshawish successfully made the transition from pharmaceutical companies and is a former owner • Cohen was introduced to horse racing by his turf to dirt to capture the Hal’s Hope (G3) and of the National Hockey League’s Florida Panthers. father when the two visited thoroughbred tracks Donn Handicap (G1). in New York. He began breeding and racing • During the 2014-2015 Championship Meet, • Finished in a three-way tie for second with 10 horses in 2003 and currently uses Stanley Gold Al Shaqab won with seven of its eight starters, wins during the 2019-20 Championship Meet, as his primary trainer. an 88 percent win clip. Their horses finished in ranking sixth in purses earned with $466,730 • His biggest racing success story came with Wait the money 100 percent of the time. and capturing the Royal Delta (G3) with Cookie a While, a winner of 12 of 24 career starts and • Al Shaqab’s earnings of $589,935 during the Dough. more than $2.1 million in purses from 2005-08. 2014-2015 Championship Meet ranked them • Also was second in wins (20) and purse earnings She was named champion filly of 2006 and third in the owners’ standings. ($813,571) at Gulfstream’s 2020 spring-summer captured 10 graded stakes including Grade 1 • Al Shaqab’s Mshawish won three stakes at meet. scores in the 2006 and 2008 Yellow Ribbon and Gulfstream during the 2014-2015 meeting: • Ranked fourth at the 2018-19 Championship 2006 American Oaks Invitational. At Gulfstream the El Prado, the Fort Lauderdale (G2) and Meet with 10 wins to go along with $473,385 she won the 2007 Honey Fox (G3) and 2006 the Gulfstream Park Handicap (G1). Sandiva in purse earnings. Davona Dale (G2). (IRE) added two black-type victories of her • Leading owner at Gulfstream’s 2019 summer • Cohen also won four graded stakes with own, capturing the Tropical Park Oaks and the stand in wins (19) and purses ($822,906) after Argentine-bred Safari Queen, the last coming in Suwannee River Stakes (G3) before finishing winning the 2019 spring meet earnings title the 2007 Orchid (G3) at Gulfstream. second in the Honey Fox (G2). ($441,330) while finishing tied for second with • Other top horses include stakes winners Blonde • Their 3-year-old colt Khozan was a leading eight wins. Bomber, Pancake, Pink Poppy, Sweet Khaleesi contender for the 2015 Florida Derby (G1) after • Led all owners in wins and purses earned at and Richard the Great. winning his first two starts at Gulfstream by Gulfstream’s 2018 spring and summer meets, a combined 16 ½ lengths before an injury to topping $1 million at the summer stand that AL SHAQAB his right hind leg temporarily halted his racing ended Sept. 30. Also won Gulfstream’s summer Al Shaqab is a worldwide racing and breeding career. 2017 win/earnings title. operation run by Sheikh Joaan al-Thani of Qatar. • Al Shaqab’s Osaila (IRE) finished third in the • He founded Best Generics Inc. in 1984. He Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) in 2014. • Al Shaqab Racing established its United States incorporated Andrx Pharmaceuticals Inc. in 1992 division in 2014, when it purchased a pair as a private company, growing the firm through of 2-year-olds at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales the production of generic drugs before selling Company March Sale of 2-year-olds in Training. much of his stock in August 2000, ultimately • Had only nine starters at the 2016-17 stepping down that October. Championship Meet, three by multiple graded • In 2002 Cohen founded Abrika Pharmaceuticals stakes winner Sandiva, who won the Marshua’s Inc. to develop and manufacture drug delivery River (G3), was second in the South Beach and systems such as skin patches and oral sprays, third in the Suwannee River (G3). selling it in 2006. Owner Profiles PAGE 3 AUGUSTIN STABLE winner Waya; With Anticipation, European • He won two races on Claiming Crown Day, the Augustin is the racing stable of George champions Selkirk, Silver Fling, Ristna, Treizieme $200,000 Jewel with Aztec Sense and $110,000 Strawbridge Jr. of Chester County, Pa. and Turgeon, 2007 English St. Leger winner Iron Horse with Salsa’s Return. Chosen the • Strawbridge owns a 700-plus acre farm named Lucarno as well as Hall of Fame steeplechaser National HBPA’s Claiming Crown Horse of the for a church near Chesapeake, Md. and champion Cafe Prince and Rainbows View, Year, Aztec Sense later gave Besecker his first • Retired from Board of Directors of Campbell winner of the 2008 Fillies Mile at Ascot. career graded triumph in the Fred Hooper (G3) – Soup Company in 2009 at age 72. • He’s an avid hockey fan who formerly held an the gelding’s ninth consecutive victory. Also won • He has been a member of The Jockey Club since interest in the Buffalo Sabres, hence the names the Rail Splitter with Wildwood Dancer. 1976. of former horses Tikkanen (for Esa Tikkanen) and • He led Emerald from a start-up investment/ • Bred 2019 Horse of the Year Bricks and Mortar, Turgeon (for Pierre Turgeon). research firm in 1991 to a diversified asset winner of Gulfstream’s $7 million Pegasus World • Spring Quality’s 18-1 upset in the 2018 Manhattan management firm with more than $5 billion Cup Turf Invitational (G1) to kick off a perfect gave Augustin its first Grade 1 victory since under management today, listed by Pensions 6-for-6 championship season. 2009. & Investments as one of the largest money • Homebred Angel Terrance named 3-year-old • Won the Lake Placid (G2) with Varenka, Maple managers in the U.S. ranked by institutional tax- filly champion of 2012 by Pennsylvania Horse Leaf (G3) with Lift Up, Athenia (G3) with Xenobia exempt assets. Breeders Association and Ontario Matron (G3) with Pamina in 2019 – • From an initial three employees, Emerald and • He won Gulfstream’s 2011 Herecomesthebride its most graded wins in a single year since 2015. its subsidiaries have grown to more than 40 (G3) with Dynamic Holiday, who also won the • Captured the Dance Smartly (G3) in 2020 with employees located in Leola, Pa., King of Prussia, Tropical Park Oaks and Florida Oaks. Theodora B. Pa., Pittsburgh and Cleveland. • He’s the all-time leading money-winning JOSEPH BESECKER • Besecker has been recognized as a finalist for steeplechase owner in America with earnings of both the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Besecker is founder, president and CEO of Emerald more than $9 million, with flat runners winning Award and Enterprise Entrepreneur of the Year Asset Management PA, LLC, parent company to many top races in Europe, including the 1991 Award. five subsidiary investment advisory firms. Queen Elizabeth II Stakes with Selkirk and 2007 • He has appeared frequently in national media St. Leger with Lucarno. • Started 18 horses during the 2019-20 such as The Wall Street Journal, New York Times • He received a Ph.D. in Latin American History Championship Meet with four wins, six seconds, and USA Today and been a regular contributor to and Political Science at the University of one third and $151,650 in purse earnings despite CNBC, Fox Business News and Bloomberg. Pennsylvania. disbursing 95 of his horses at Fasig-Tipton’s • Besecker created the Emerald Foundation in • He’s the former adjunct professor of Latin mixed sale in December 2019. 2010 as a way to give back to the community. American History at Widener College. • In 2020, Besecker won the Charles Town Oaks He has served as a national trustee and past • His father founded the Philadelphia Stock (G3) with Fly On Angel and Senator Ken Maddy president of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Exchange. (G3) with Biddy Duke. and a board member of the Lancaster, Pa. Boys • The best horses bred/owned by Augustin: 2009 • Finished as the leading owner at Gulfstream’s and Girls Club. Emerald was named Corporate Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf winner Informed 2018-19 Championship Meet with 19 wins, and Citizen of the Year in 2005 by the Central Decision, 2008 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare ranked 10th with $690,921 in purse earnings. Pennsylvania Business Journal. Turf winner Forever Together, 1994 Breeders’ Ranked sixth in North America with 89 wins • He and his wife, Martha, have four children – Cup Turf champion Tikkanen; Eclipse Award in 2018. Jeb, John, Liam and Lily. Owner Profiles PAGE 4 FRANK CALABRESE CLAIBORNE FARM • Claiborne campaigned champions Forty Niner, Calabrese is a Chicago native who sold FCL Claiborne Farm is the breeding and racing Moccasin and 1984 Kentucky Derby and Graphics, a printing company near Chicago, operation of Seth Hancock Jr. of Paris, Ky. Belmont Stakes winner Swale. for a reported $75 million in 2004. • Claiborne bred champions Bayou, Beaugay, • Claiborne Farm, established by A.B. Hancock Sr. Doubledogdare, Gamely, Jacula, Lamb Chop, • He started out racing harness horses before in early 1910, is located on 2,700 acres. Hancock Nadir, Revidere, Round Table, Slew o’ Gold switching to Thoroughbreds in 1982. Sr. ran the farm until 1947, before it was passed and Wajima.