NYTB seated its 2010 Board of Directors on January 25, 2010 and re-elected Barry R. Ostrager to serve as Board President. Of the eleven person board, five members are serving the second year of two-year terms in 2010: Lois Engel of Lattingtown, NY, owner of Pucker Ridge Farm in Warrensburg, NY; Thomas J. Gallo, III, founder and managing owner of Parting Glass Racing and Thomas J. Gallo III Sales Agency, LLC, and owner of Blue Stone Farm in Cambridge, NY; Vivien Malloy, owner of Edition Farm in Waccabuc, NY; John McMahon, owner and manager of Old Saratoga Thoroughbreds outside of Saratoga Springs, NY, and Chris Purdy, DDS, owner of Ivy League Farm in Ithaca, NY.
Four board members who served two-year terms from 2007 to 2009 were recently re-elected to serve from 2010 to 2012: Chester Broman of West Babylon, NY, who owns Chestertown Farm; Joanne T. Nielsen of Darien, CT, owner of Sunnyfield Farm; Suzie O’Cain, Co-manager of Highcliff Farm in Delanson, NY, and Barry R. Ostrager, JD, who lives in New York, NY, and is principle owner of Questroyal Stud. Two new members were elected to the NYTB Board: Dr. Jerry Bilinski, DVM, owner of Waldorf Farm and Equine Medical Center in North Chatham, NY and breeder Shirl Penney of Saratoga Springs, NY. Dr. Bilinski is a veterinarian and stands stallions Bustin Stones and Breathless Affair at his North Chatham farm; he also breeds to race and sell, and runs a boarding operation. Shirl Penney, who breeds both to race and sell, is the CEO of an independent wealth management business in Manhattan and President of a real estate investment company.
At its first meeting, the newly seated NYTB Board also elected its officers. The Board unanimously re-elected the three individuals who had served as officers in 2009: in addition to Barry R. Ostrager, who was re-elected President, Thomas J. Gallo, III will serve another year as Vice-President, and Vivien Malloy will serve again as Secretary/Treasurer.
Re-elected NYTB Board President, Barry R. Ostrager said of the coming year: “We have two new members on the newly-constituted NYTB Board and have unanimously re-elected all the incumbent officers for 2010, and I am delighted by that result. In 2010 NYTB will continue to be extremely active concerning major challenges facing the racing and breeding industries, specifically the inaction by the state in implementing the VLTs at Aqueduct and the crisis caused by the recent bankruptcy filing by NYC OTB. The NYTB membership can be assured that they will be hearing a lot about NYTB’s growing role in attempting to resolve these industry-threatening problems.”
