Cash Is King Stable LLC. Managing Partner: Chuck
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Cash Is King Stable LLC. Managing partner: Chuck Zacney Born: June 4, 1961 in Philadelphia, Pa. Residence: Upper Providence, Pa. Family: wife, Carol, son Alex and daughters Amanda and Casey. Breeders’ Cup Record: 1-0-1-0 | $300,000 • Partnership created and operated by Pennsylvanian Chuck Zacney will be making its first run since 2004 in the Breeders’ Cup World Championships. That’s the year that the partnership made a big debut when its Afleet Alex finished second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. • The son of Northern Afleet came back the next year and put the group in even more limelight by winning the 2005 Preakness and Belmont Stakes after finishing third in the Kentucky Derby. Earlier, he had won the Arkansas Derby. • The group also earned a Special Eclipse Award in 2005 for its promotion and financial aid of Alex’s Lemonade Stand, created by 4-year-old Alex Scott in 2000 to raise awareness and money to fight pediatric cancer. The lemonade stand idea began at her home in Connecticut and grew into a national phenomenon in which Cash Is King, through its Afleet Alex, was a major contributor. During 2005, the charity raised $4 million. • Cash Is King returned to the national spotlight with 2016 Kentucky Oaks winner Cathryn Sophia, who was retired after finishing third to Songbird in the Cotillion Stakes at Parx three starts later. • Aside from Cathryn Sophia and Afleet Alex, the stable’s only other graded stakes winner is Afleet Again, who captured the Withers Stakes (G3) in 2010. It was stakes-placed in 2018 with Diamond King, who became Cash Is King’s first Preakness starter since Afleet Alex, but could only manage a seventh behind eventual Triple Crown winner Justify. He did finish second in the Smarty Jones Stakes (G3) and third in both the Swale (G3) and Oklahoma Derby (G3). • The partnership is co-owner of Jaywalk, who is heading to the Juvenile Fillies after posting three victories in four starts. The filly was bought for $190,000 at the 2017 Keeneland September Yearling Sale. She’s trained by John Servis. • The idea to buy a racehorse and start Cash Is King Stable came to Zacney while he was at the 2004 Super Bowl with Joe Lerro, who became one of his original partners … Zacney credited the early success of the Pennsylvania-bred Smarty Jones, who would win the 2004 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, as the inspiration for his interest in starting the stable. Ironically, Smarty Jones was trained by Servis, who now trains for Zacney. • Zacney grew up near Liberty Bell and Keystone racetracks and fell in love with racing at a young age. • Zacney is founder of the Sirrus Group, a regional medical billing company based in Norristown, Pa., in 1997. .