BY JAY HOVDEY
Samantha Siegel’s lifelong passion for racing burns brightly as she expands the legacy of her family’s Jay Em Ess Stable
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PADDOCK 2012
he idea of maintaining a first-class racing stable over a span of generations is one of those American myths that just won’t die. The same names are trotted out as laudable examples—Whitney, Phipps, Galbreath, DuPont—but by now their numbers have dwindled, while major patrons come and go with the seasons. Torches are no longer passed. They fizzle. Which makes the legacy of the Mace and Jan Siegel Thoroughbred operation an exception to most recent trends. From a stable born in the blush of early romance, through decades as a passionate family pastime, horses who carry the OAKTREE RACING ASSOCIATION