THURSDAY, JULY 2, 2015 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here ELI-TE COMPANY DUPUIS FINDS SUCCESS by Steve Sherack by Christie DeBernardis After Tammy the Torpedo (More Than Ready) blitzed Francoise Dupuis, a bloodstock agent and California home to a jaw-dropping debut win over the grass at breeder, has enjoyed a lot of success throughout her Saratoga last summer, trainer Chad Brown turned to co- career in horse racing, but she achieved her biggest owner Jay Hanley, pulled on success as a breeder last his shirt and said, AThe one Saturday when she watched we have in the barn is a lot Masochistic (Sought After) win better.@ the GI Triple Bend S. Talk about calling your AIt is something I have never shot. experienced before and I have With a perfect five-for-five to assume will never happen again, Dupuis said of seeing a record and just a shade @ horse she bred win a Grade I. under seven figures in AThe beauty of this is, it=s an earnings--including a example that the little guy can sensational victory in last make it because I am a little, term=s GI Breeders= Cup little, mini-breeder. That is the Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa beauty of the game. You still Anita--Lady Eli (Divine Park) have a chance. It may be a Francoise Dupuis heads into Saturday=s GI longshot, but you still have a Belmont Oaks Invitational as chance!@ the one to beat while Masochistic=s performance even caught the eye of Lady Eli | Sherackatthetrack negotiating 1 1/4 miles for Hall of Famer Bob Baffert, who pulled Dupuis aside the first time against 13 after the race. rivals. AIt=s a funny story actually,@ Dupuis remarked. AI saw AIt has been equally humbling and extraordinary,@ said Bob Baffert Saturday and he said, >You got a good Hanley, who, along with Sol Kumin and a pair of silent horse. Why didn=t you send it to me?= I said, >Who partners, operate as Sheep Pond Partners. cares? You have the Triple Crown winner!= We laughed Hanley continued, AI=ve spoken to guys in the game in and I said, >You don=t want a Cal-bred. That=s not you,= their 60s saying that they=ve never seen a filly with a and we laughed some more.@ Cont. p5 turn of foot like this in their lives. It=s hard for me to even put that into perspective, frankly. It=s really been amazing.@ Cont. p3 TIME FOR CHANGE IS NOW Over the course of the past 40 years, I have seen the sport of Thoroughbred racing encounter significant challenges and I've witnessed them from a couple of different perspectives. As a deputy attorney general in New Jersey in 1975-77, I supervised the Tony Ciulla race-fixing case. (For those of you too young to remember, Ciulla admitted to fixing races at a host of tracks, primarily in New England, New York and the Mid-Atlantic region, between 1972 and 1975. Ciulla became a state=s witness and eventually was resettled in the federal witness relocation program.) Later, I served as counsel and executive director for the New Jersey Racing Commission, followed by 20 years as a racetrack executive at Monmouth Park, The Meadowlands, Philadelphia Park, Aqueduct, Belmont Park, and Saratoga, with stints as president of the Thoroughbred Jay Hanley (left by trophy) & Sol Kumin (right w/ his three children) Racing Association and chairman of the Thoroughbred Coady Photography Racing Protective Bureau along the way. 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Lucas Marquardt is on the scene. Page 1 ATW TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/2/15 • PAGE 3 of 11 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Eli-te Company cont. Hanley--the principal of the Nantucket, Massachusetts-based Hanley Construction & Development--met Kumin, the former chief operating officer of SAC Capital Advisors LP, when Kumin was looking to make some renovations to his house. The location of Kumin=s piece of property? Sheep Pond Road. AWe met about nine or 10 years ago or so,@ Hanley, 43, explained. AHe was a new home owner in Nantucket at the time and needed some renovations done. A friend of a friend hooked us up and our Lady Eli | Coady Photography relationship grew from there. Eventually, I owned one horse by myself--he would always ask questions about her--and he ultimately cornered me at a cocktail party with a couple of his buddies. My horse [Wild While trips to Saratoga--Hanley=s late mother was Grace] had just won at Saratoga [in August 2013] and I from nearby Fort Edward--had him hooked since was telling them all about it and how great it was and it childhood, Kumin=s path to racing went through Charm all just started from there.@ City during his college days. Sheep Pond Partners currently owns approximately AI had always loved to gamble,@ Kumin commented. 25 horses, the majority in partnership, since launching AWhen I went to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, I played in 2014. One race before American Pharoah (Pioneer lacrosse there, and if we ended up in the top four in the ofthe Nile) completed his historic Triple Crown sweep in country, we=d get to go to the Preakness on our bye the GI Belmont S., Sheep Pond, along with partners weekend. While all my friends were in the infield, I was Michael Dubb and Bethlehem Stables LLC, were trying to study the book and do some handicapping. I celebrating a 14-1 upset win courtesy Slumber (GB) always had a soft spot for racing, but didn=t really have (Cacique {Ire}) in the GI Manhattan S. The 7-year-old time for it once I graduated college and moved to New was acquired for $200,000 as a horse of racing age at York and started working 100-hour weeks. The last last year=s KEENOV sale. couple of years, though, we bought a couple of horses, Kumin, along with NFL star wide receiver and and all of a sudden, I just saw myself getting hooked.@ Breeders= Cup Ambassador Wes Welker, also campaigns For Kumin, a father of three, racing has quickly Undrafted (Purim), winner of last month=s G1 Diamond become a family affair. Jubilee S. at Royal Ascot. The 40-year-old launched Folger Hill Asset Management, a hedge fund backed by Cont. p4 $1.2 billion in capital, earlier this year. It currently boasts 55 employees. LADY ELI’S HIGHLIGHT REEL AIt=s been incredible--three Grade 1s in seven months,@ said Kumin, who splits his time between Race Date Boston and New York. AEveryone just keeps saying to Wonder Again S. May 31 me, >You have no idea how lucky you are. This doesn=t GIII Appalachian S. Apr. 12 happen. It=s not like this.= I honestly feel really lucky. GI BC Juvenile Fillies Turf Oct. 31 Jay and I have been buddies for a long time and Chad GIII Miss Grillo S. Sept. 28 has taken us under his wing and it=s been awesome. Msw Aug. 25 We=re all basically in the same age bracket, too, and it=s been a lot of fun. We=ve surrounded ourselves with good people that we trust and we=ve been really lucky.@ TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/2/15 • PAGE 4 of 11 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Lady Eli Feature cont. Now, back to the aforementioned, Aone in the barn.@ ANow, it=s become a big part of my life,@ he explained, Lady Eli, bred in Kentucky by Runnymede Farm Inc. admitting that Lady Eli=s success has been the main and Catesby W. Clay, passed through the sales ring reason. AMy wife loves it--Lady Eli is named after her. I twice. Bradley Thoroughbreds purchased Lady Eli for have three little kids and take them to the track all the $160,000 as a KEESEP yearling before pinhooking the time. We go to the barns and they feed the horses dark bay for the peppermints. They just love it.