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Madaket Stable

Principal: Sol Kumin

Born: May 13, 1975, in Boston

Residences: , Boston and Nantucket, Massachussets.

Family: wife, Elizabeth; one daughter, Corey, and two sons, Sam and Jax

Business: Finance; philanthropist

• Madaket is one of the half-dozen or so stables owned by Sol Kumin, who has thoroughly embraced the partnership aspect of ownership.

• Madaket, named for Madaket Beach and the Madaket section of Nantucket Island, races approximately 100 horses, the majority of which are females, in more than 70 partnerships, including some with the sport’s most prominent owners.

• Among his most notable horses is Triple Crown winner and 2018 Horse of the Year , who was co-owned by Kumin’s Head of Plains Partners, China Horse Club Starlight Racing and WinStar Farm.

• Also formed other ownership groups that include Monomoy Stable, Beacon Hill Partners, Great Point Stables and Nantucket Thoroughbred Partners.

• Through a multitude of partnerships has an ownership interest in several 2020 Breeders’ Cup candidates, including Derby (G1) winner and (G1) runner-up . The -trained colt, who reserved his spot in the Longines Classic by taking the “Win and You’re In” Haskell Stakes (G1) in July, is co-owned by Madaket Stakes, Starlight Racing, Farm, and My Racehorse Stable.

• Also on the extensive roster headed to the 2020 Breeders’ Cup is the 6-year-old Uni, who will try to defend her title in the FanDuel Mile (G1) presented by PDJF even though she qualified for the “Win and You’re In” Maker’s Mark Filly & Mare Turf (G1) at 1 3/16 miles with her repeat score in the First Lady Stakes (G1) at Oct. 3. The mile distance suits her better.

• CZ Rocket, who was claimed for $40,000 in April at Oaklawn Park, and Aunt Pearl (IRE), both co-owned with multiple partners, have also qualified this year through the Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” Challenge Series.

• CZ Rocket’s win the Pat O’Brien Stakes (G2) at Del Mar on Aug. 29 gave him entry into the Big Ass Fans Dirt Mile and his Santa Anita Sprint Championship (G2) score a month later earned him a spot in the 2020 Sprint.

• Aunt Pearl, purchased out of the 2019 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale for $358,766, set a stakes record of 1:40.86 in the Jessamine Stakes (G2) on October 7 while earning her starting berth in the Juvenile Fillies Turf and looms as the favorite.

• Other 2020 probable entries include (Longines Distaff), Speech (Filly & Mare Sprint), and Plum Ali (Juvenile Fillies Turf). Whitmore (Sprint), Fluffy Socks (Juvenile Fillies Turf), Spielberg (TVG Juvenile), and Tarantino (Juvenile Turf) are among the possible additions.

• Through various partnerships in 2019 Kumin won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) with and the Mile (G1) with Uni while Midnight Biosu was the runner-up in the Distaff (G1).

• British Idiom (2-Year-Old Filly), (Older Dirt Female) and Uni (Female Turf Horse) were divisional Award winners in 2019.

• British Idiom, who was sold to Japanese interests earlier this year, was co-owned by Michael Dubb, The Elkstone Group, Madaket Stables, and Bethlehem Stables. Uni is co- owned by head of Plains Partners, Michael Dubb, Robert LaPenta and Bethlehem Stables. Midnight Bisou, co-owned by Bloom Racing stable, Madaket Stables and Allen Racing, was retired this fall and is being offered at the Fasig-Tipton November Breeding Stock sale.

• In 2018 Monomoy Girl, campaigned under Kumin’s Monomoy Stable banner along with Michael Dubb, Stuart Grant's The Elkstone Group and Bethlehem Stables, won the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) and the (G1) and was the - winning 3-Year-Old Filly.

• Monomoy Girl missed all of 2019 with injuries that sidelined her for 18 months. Trained by Brad Cox, she has made a remarkable comeback in 2020 and is undefeated in three starts while taking the Stakes (G2) and the LaTroinne Stakes (G1), which was her sixth top-level victory. The 2018 Distaff winner comes into the 2020 edition as the likely favorite.

• Under his Head of Plains Partners banner, Kumin enjoyed a 2015 Breeders’ Cup victory with Wavell Avenue in the Filly & Mare Sprint (G1), co-owned by Michael Dubb, David Simon and Bethlehem Stables.

• His group Sheep Pond Partners sent out Lady Eli to win the 2014 Juvenile Fillies Turf and she was voted the 2017 Eclipse Award as champion Turf Female.

• In a rare double in 2018, Kumin became the first owner in 66 years to score the /Kentucky Oaks double when Justify won Derby the day after Monomoy Girl captured the Oaks. The feat had not been equaled since Calumet Farm won both events in 1952 with Hill Gail and Real Delight, respectively.

• Bought his first Thoroughbred in 2014 and his first win came in March of that year with Madaket Millie at Gulfstream Park.

• Approximately one month later, he and partner Jay Hanley (Sheep Pond Partners) submitted the winning bid of $160,000 for Lady Eli at the 2014 Keeneland April 2-year- olds in training sale. Eventually a multiple Grade 1 winner and champion, she earned $2,959,800. She rebounded from life-threatening laminitis to reassert herself as one of the leading turf mares of her era and was sold for $4.2 million.

• Under Head of Plains Partners banner, Kumin was a co-owner of 2016 Preakness (G1) winner .

• A co-owner with him in multiple U.S. graded-stakes winner Undrafted, also victorious in the Diamond Jubilee (G1) at Royal Ascot in England, was former New England Patriots wide receiver Wes Welker.

• Co-President of Leucadia Asset Management and is responsible for the overall management of the business. Founder and chief executive officer of Folger Hill Asset Management, an equity hedge fund launched in 2014. In April 2018 he merged Folger Hill with Schonfeld Strategic Advisors and took on a new role of chief asset strategist with Leucadia. Prior to launching Folger, Kumin spent 10 years with SAC Capital Advisors, most recently as chief operating officer.

• Bradley Weisbord of BSW Bloodstock manages Kumin’s Thoroughbred operation, including the acquisition of bloodstock.

• Is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore where he earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and government. He serves on the board of Johns Hopkins’ school of arts and sciences.

• Has shown support for retired racehorses by previously donating a percentage of each horse’s Breeders’ Cup earnings to New Vocations racehorse adoption program.