Louisville Magazine

MAR 2013

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SPORTS Titletown Five Paul Hornung Ed Martin* Willie Davis* David Miller Hansen** Jim Shircliff & Dr. Harvey Diamond (Sky Chai Racing) Dr. Kendall Hansen Sand Dollar Stable* South Floyd, Avare Rick Pitino Ed Glasscock Twinspired** Jim Shircliff & Dr. Harvey Diamond (Sky Chai Racing) Alex Brown Andrew Beck Ashley Abney Daniel Johnson Greg Deuser Henry Sanders Justin Akin Michele Robbins Sarah Riddle Thomas Forsha Tom Mueller Sand Dollar Stable* Shanghai Bobby Jack & Laurie Wolf Ed Glasscock Clint Glasscock Chris Sullivan* Donald and Barbara Lucarelli* Coolmore* Russdiculous Rick Pitino (RAP Racing) Sullivan Stables* Lou Lamoriello* Ed Glasscock Goldencents Rick Pitino (RAP Racing) W.C. Racing* Dave Kenney* * non-Louisvillians **Derby contenders from past years SHARING A DERBY DREAM By Bill Doolittle Local owners have been partnering up in an attempt to end Louisville���s 106-year Derby drought. Could this ��nally be the year? 22 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 3.13 I t���s a cold day in January. But from his offce on the 30th foor of the Aegon Tower, Ed Glasscock can see all the way to the frst Saturday in May. ���Imagine,��� he says, ���the thrill of walking from the backside. One hundred sixty thousand people. With your horse. To the paddock. Ten ���My Old Kentucky Home.��� And it keeps building. To the gate. And then the race!��� It���s a beautiful picture, and Glasscock can see himself in it ��� maybe this year. And who could doubt him? Te Louisville attorney is one of the owners of a stick of Toroughbred dynamite named Shanghai Bobby, last year���s two-year-old champion who���s come out running at three and fgures as one of the horses to beat in the 139th Kentucky Derby on May 4 at Churchill Downs. An otherwise sensible man, Glasscock, the chairman emeritus of the law frm Frost Brown Todd, knows he���s risking the wrath of the racing gods by peeking three months into the future. Knows he shouldn���t have already plotted to sit in a third-foor box on Derby Day rather than a ffth-foor suite, where he���d be forced to rely on a slow elevator to get to the winner���s circle. He knows better, but he can���t help it. He���s got Derby Fever, and he���s got it bad. ���I was like that with my frst one, Harlan���s Holiday,��� says Jack Wolf, whose Starlight Racing manages Shanghai Bobby. Wolf has run four horses in the Derby and considers himself nearly immune to Derby Fever. But he un- derstands the afiction. ���If Ed doesn���t get this horse in the Derby,��� Wolf says with a laugh, ���I don���t know what he���s going to do.��� And Glasscock���s not the only one. Several groups of Louisvillians have literally bought into Derby Fever this spring, sharing the fnancial ��� and emotional ��� burden of owning a top Toroughbred. Te partners in Shanghai Bobby include Wolf and his wife Laurie, Glasscock and his son Clint, Chris Sullivan of Atlanta, and Donald and Barbara Lucarelli of New York. And just before Shanghai Bobby���s victory in the $2 million Breeders��� Cup Juvenile last fall in California, the Starlight partners sold a half interest in the horse to Coolmore Stud of Ireland, the world���s leading racing and breeding operation. Tat���s a lot of mouths for Shanghai Bobby to feed, but the partners should do all right on this one. Te horse cost $105,000, selected for Wolf by bloodstock agent Frankie Brothers at the Keeneland September sale. But he���s earned $1.7 million on the track, plus an undisclosed amount of Coolmore cash, plus possible future stallion syndication and stud fees. Not to mention that Shanghai Bobby is so popular he could star in his own Derby reality series on Horse Racing TV. Glasscock, a native of Leitchfeld, Ky., attended his frst Kentucky Derby in 1969, and kept on attending. Along the way he began buying racehorses, and for the past two decades has bought into a bunch of Torough-

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