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NYTB Board unanimously elects Tom Gallo President

Monday, June 8th, 2015

by Sarah Mace

At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the New York Thoroughbred Breeders, Inc. (NYTB), which took place on Monday, June 8, 2015 at the organization’s Saratoga Springs office, Board members unanimously elected long-time NYTB Vice President Thomas J. Gallo III to serve as Board President through the remainder of 2015. Current NYTB Director Mallory Mort, Farm Manager at Marlene Brody’s Gallagher’s Stud in Ghent, was elected to replace Gallo in the office of Vice President. The Board also selected Dr. Joan M. Taylor to fill a Director vacancy.

The elections and appointment of a new Director to the NYTB Board were occasioned by the resignation of Board President Barry Ostrager following his nomination to serve as a judge in the Civil Branch of the Supreme Court of the State of New York in the Court of Claims. Ostrager, who has served on the NYTB Board of Directors since 1998 and is the majority owner of Questroyal Stud in Stillwater, is a former partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, where he was a nationally prominent trial lawyer.

Incoming NYTB Board President Tom Gallo, who owns Blue Stone Farm in Cambridge with his wife Mia, is the founder and managing owner of Parting Glass Racing and Thomas J. Gallo III Sales Agency, LLC. From years of service on the NYTB board and as Chair of the NYTB PAC, Gallo brings a wealth of experience and first-hand knowledge about the industry, marketing and legislative process to the office of Board President.

Said Gallo, “First, on behalf of the whole Board I want to express our gratitude for Barry’s long and distinguished service on behalf of NYTB and on behalf of the New York racing and breeding industries as a whole. As the new President of the NYTB Board, I would like to continue the momentum created by Barry and our Board. I will also make every effort to keep NYTB in a leadership role for the benefit of both the New York breeding industry, and the breeding industry nationwide.”

Newly-appointed NYTB Director Joan Taylor is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine who earned her degree from Tufts University. In 1990 she partnered with her husband William B. Wilmot to build and operate Stepwise Farm in Saratoga to engage in breeding and selling quality racing prospects for the commercial market. Taylor also serves as an advisor for aspiring veterinary students at Skidmore and Connecticut College, is a volunteer for local nonprofit groups and has held a variety of leadership, fundraising and board positions, including the Wesley Foundation, Travers Committee and for the past six years has chaired the Adirondack Trust Community Fund.

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