Papa D's early years in racing

A friend Bob came to me and wanted to know if I could help his friend Drake get into thoroughbred racing with his wife-to-be? They stayed into racing & breeding until 2017; when Drake's son took over. As of 2021, he was making close to $3 million per year racing & breeding! 

Naomi is a fashion model. Who didn't know what to do with her money. So I told her to invest $550,000 in racing thoroughbreds. She had her friend run the business, under my direction. Naomi finally sold this venture for $12 million in 2018. This partnership today makes $2 million per year in breeding only.

I've known Jeannie since the 1990's. Her and Derrick came into some money through the lotto. She wanted to know how to get into thoroughbred racing. Today, they make just shy of $4 million per month breeding down in Kentucky (his birth state) They own a farm east of Louisville. 

Peter was a dealer in a casino. He had saved up a lot of money (almost $1 million) So we were talking one day, he was interested in purchasing thoroughbreds. Late 2014, he bought eight racehorses. Today, his brother and two cousins own a breeding farm in California, making $2 million per month together. 

Annie used to work for an Italian restaurant. She met Jesse in 2016, who happened to have $3 million in the bank. They married and through me, they began to purchase thoroughbred racehorses in mid 2017. Today, they both race and breed thoroughbreds in Kentucky, near the Tennessee border. 

I met Kent through a friend of mine in 2019. He was a procrastinator. Kept telling me that he was going to purchase racehorses. Then one day in 2021, he came to me and said: "Let's get this done!" So in October of 2021, after he caught Covid- they began purchasing racehorses in Maryland. Today they race and breed outside of Baltimore. 

I was living in Illinois and Las Vegas both and Jeffrey and myself decided to purchase three standardbreds, along with the five thoroughbreds we owned. Racing them at the Illinois racetracks. 

Jeffrey and I owned nine racehorses in early 1991; when we decided to ask three of our friends to join in a partnership. The five of us had a total of 12 racehorses back then. We made more money gambling, then racing with them! 

By 1993, I left Las Vegas just after Jeffrey passed away from an accident. I came back to Illinois as the four of us had a corporation, not only of eighteen racehorses, but limos, taxis (medallions), and semis. We were making a very decent living.

By 1996, the four of us owned 29 racehorses (18 thoroughbreds) and we all were into financing/leasing now. This was the year that I got into trouble by borrowing $50,000 to a former friend. I will explain in detail at our first Friday meeting. We each were making $2.5+ million every year in profit! 

I did take out money from the racetrack accounts to give to my friend, so he could pay the I.R.S. (E.I.N.) accounts that were owed. Couldn't get that type of cash from banks. 

Because I was in deep with the feds, I had to sell my share of the racehorses and get out of our finance/leasing businesses. I will also explain what happened through October of 2005. The businesses were my life, but when someone wants to come after you- sometimes they never quit! 

There were several of us that lost a great deal of money because of this overzealous agent!

He just made a mistake, never bothered checking the almost $2 million at our four racetrack accounts! 

How time flies! The past two years have been quite slow finding new racing owners. So now I will set up this Club for 11-17 year old females and see how this goes. I know everything there is to know about thoroughbreds (and harness racehorses). I have been to auctions, sales and purchased racehorses at the racetracks. Once you have fallen off a bike- YOU get back on and continue riding. 

I am the Program Director, 

Papa D

Let's get started!!!

Early in 1990, after Maybelle & Danny made nearly $1.7 million racing their thoroughbreds in Florida; they decided it wasn't for them and sold their partnership to Gene for $1.2 million, to include all of their stock.

Gene and his three partners are doing quite well in 2024. Gene said they are grossing $1.4 million per month, owning several racehorses. 

Derrick led this partnership right into the ground! A known gambler who had to give their racehorses away to cover his gambling debt of nearly $800,000! They disbanded their partnership in 1992, after owning fifteen racing thoroughbreds! 

I spoke to Derrick in October of 2021; he said that he lost over 

$2 million gambling during a

four-year period! 

What a nightmare for him!

In 2009, Simon came to me begging me to get him into the thoroughbred industry. So, I showed him how to get a second mortgage to finance this venture. His home was worth more than $1 million dollars. By early 2011, he took on Tate and William. By 2014, the three of them owned eighteen thoroughbreds, they even thought of breeding. This all fell apart when Simon decided robbery was better than making a million+ every month! He was arrested in late 2014 and they all started selling their racehorses to pay for Simon's attorney. What a shame.

Nikki became an owner in 2013 and her mom joined this group in early 2014. They even were part of a group who won one of the Triple Crown Races! At this point, they were in three different stables. But that went all away, when her mom and Nikki began to argue over the money that Nikki was spending. They were making close to $800,000 per month at one point! Their partnership dissolved, as they sold all of their thoroughbred races in mid 2016. 

All of these five situations were OK'd by the individuals involved, so that our EYL girls can know how failures can happen in racing. 

Wendell came to me in early 2018, wanting to own thoroughbred racehorses. He found me through Berdette, who lives in Ohio owning over twenty racehorses. So he and I went on a buying spry August of 2018 through to January of 2019. He took on four partners in the meantime and began to make some serious money- over $1 million dollars monthly! Then he and one of his partners, DeShawn began to gamble. They gambled away their racehorses and their partnership dissolved in a courtroom in September of 2020. I really felt bad for Shinnika, one of their partners.