MyRacehorse Stable (Michael Behrens)

Residence: Rancho Cucamonga, California

Family: Wife, two sons and a daughter

Education: San Diego State University; Marketing, California State Polytechnic University – Pomona

Position: Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MyRacehorse.Com

Breeders’ Cup Record: 1 0-0-0 | $20,000

• Officially launched in June 2018. Via the MyRacehorse.Com website, users can purchase one-time “micro-shares” in horses as small as a fraction of a percent and usually for less than $100 per share. Purchase price includes a prepaid amount for the care and training of the horse and further expenses are paid through winnings. If the horse is profitable, the dividends are dispersed among shareholders.

• MyRacehorse acquires minority stakes in the horses in which it is involved, and the responsibility of day-to-day decisions is left to the majority partners.

• Struck gold in 2020 with , trained by Hall of Famer and co-owned with (B. Wayne Hughes), Madaket Stables (Sol Kumin) and Starlight Racing (Jack Wolf).

• Authentic won the 2020 (G1) after taking the Haskell Stakes (G1), a “Win and You’re In” qualifier for the Breeders’ Cup Longines Classic (G1), and he was the runner-up in the Preakness (G1).

• Authentic, by Spendthrift stallion Into Mischief, also won the San Felipe Stakes (G2) and the Stakes (G3) and was second in the (G1) this year. Myracehorse.com, who was invited by B. Wayne Hughes to buy in to the colt, became a partner after the Santa Anita Derby in June and before the Haskell in July.

• Ownership in MyRacehorse’s portion of Authentic cost $206 per share for 0.001% of the colt, who has earned $3,040,000 heading into the Classic.

• There are 5,314 MyRacehorse shareholders in Authentic. A lottery is held to pick a maximum of 12 individuals who can be at the track to watch him run.

• Baffert brought in many of his friends and family members as shareholders in Authentic and they include multiple Olympic gold medal and World Championship-winning skier Bode Miller and Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Walter Buehler.

• On Oct. 12, 2020 was named the OwnerView New Owner of the Year. “MyRacehorse launched nationally with aspirations of making a real impact on the sport of . We were confident it would happen, but never in our wildest dreams did we expect it to happen so quickly. Winning this award, especially considering the innovators that have won it previously, is truly the icing on the cake to a surreal and magical year for MyRacehorse,” Behrens said.

• Currently owns stakes in 64 horses, with plans to grow to more than 100 over the next year.

• Shares in MyRacehorse runners are legal to purchase in all 50 states.

• The early star among the MyRacehorse portfolio was Street Band. As a 3-year-old filly in 2019 she punched a “Win and You’re In” ticket for the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) by winning the Cotillion Stakes (G1). She finished eighth.

• MyRacehorse bought into Street Band in the weeks leading up to the Kentucky Oaks (G1). She was retired after her last race in August and will be offered for sale in the November Fasig-Tipton Night of the Stars.

• Bought into Lazy Daisy in 2020 for her 3-year-old campaign. The winner of the 2019 Pocohontas Stakes (G2), a “Win and You’re In” qualifier for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1), finished sixth last year. She was retired this year and will be sold as a broodmare or racing prospect at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

• The long list of entities MyRacehorse has partnered with on horses includes Altamira Racing Stable, Alydom Racing, Battle Born Racing Stable, Nick Ferrara, Brewer Racing Stable, C T R Stables, Great Friends Stable, Wonderland Racing Stables, Dennis O’Neill, EC Racing, Epic Racing, JSM Equine, Knollwood Stables, KM Racing Enterprise, Kenwood Racing, Madden Racing, Pappas Racing, Rockingham Ranch and Slam Dunk Racing.

• Behrens is the former chief marketing officer for the Casper Mattress company, an online retailer of mattresses. He left Casper in late 2017 because the company is based in New York and his family lives in California.

• David Kandasamy, a longtime executive in California’s tech sector with positions with Yahoo, Viacom, America Online, Netscape and Pacific Digital Group, was an original partner with Behrens in the stable’s founding, but is no longer involved.

• In 2020 B. Wayne Hughes, owner of Spendthrift Farm, and Duncan Taylor, the president and CEO of Taylor Made Farm, joined as strategic partners.

• MyRaceHorse donates a portion of its income from share purchases to the Aftercare Alliance.