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WINNING OWNERS – MAY-JUNE 2013
WINNING OWNERS Profiles of Grade 1-winning owners between May and June 2013 Future profiles online at trainermagazine.com/winners WORDS: BILL HELLER PHOTOS: HORSEPHOTOS.COM
AUBBY K Won the Humana Distaff at Churchill Downs Owned by James Spence Trained by Ralph E. Nicks Sire Street Sense Dam Lilly Capote
JAMES Spence, a 73-year-old real estate developer and builder in Terre Haute, Indiana, owns a company, James C. Spence & Associates, which specializes in multi-family developments. Spence is pretty good with equine families, too. Most Thoroughbred owners don’t get to start a horse in a Grade 1 stakes, let alone win one. Even fewer win a Grade 1 stakes with a homebred, but that’s exactly what Spence did with Aubby K, a daughter of Street Sense who captured the Humana Distaff Stakes at Churchill Downs. Earlier this year, she won the Grade 2 Inside Information Stakes at
Gulfstream Park in her four-year-old debut. Aubby K’s dam is Spence’s graded stakes winner Lilly Capote, who has also produced Grade 2 stakes-placed Mythical Pegasus and Flying Pegasus, as well as America’s Storm by Storm Cat who sold for $3.6 million at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. Lilly Capote produced five winners from six foals. Spence’s other top horses include $200,000plus earner Forty Won and Forty Dolls, a homebred who won the Louisiana Futurity.
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