The New York Thoroughbred Breeders Inc. will host its annual general membership meeting and educational seminar on Sunday, Oct. 13 at the Fasig-Tipton sales pavilion in Saratoga Springs.
The event, which features a free dinner and cocktail hour for attendees, runs from 5-8p.m. all are encouraged to RSVP by Friday, Oct. 11 at nytbreeders.org/events.
This year’s seminar topic focuses on equine financial management. Where you can learn more about stallion syndication deals, evaluations, and farm business management.
Sponsored by the New York State Thoroughbred Breeding & Development Fund “The Fund” featured speakers include Mark Toothaker, stallion sales manager for Spendthrift Farm, Len Green, Founder & Chairman of The Green Group, and Chris Trusso who led the Greenwich, New York branch of Farm Credit East before retiring in March of 2024.
“We are focusing our educational meeting this year on the business of the thoroughbred business. We are thrilled to offer the opportunity for New York breeders to learn from the insight and expertise of our speakers including Mark Toothaker, the legendary Leonard Green and Chris Trusso. They have a lot of knowledge to share about equine business management, equine banking and the prospectives behind stallion evaluation and syndication deals,” said NYTB President Dr. Scott Ahlschwede, D.V.M. “We encourage everyone to register and attend.”
To promote the open format of the seminar meeting, NYTB is soliciting questions from attendees in advance. Questions may be emailed to info@nytbreeders.org.
Green is the Founder and Chairman of the New Jersey CPA firm, The Green Group, specializing in tax, accounting and consulting especially in the Thoroughbred industry. He and his late wife Lois also started D.J. Stable, which is now managed by their son, Jon, and has won over 2,500 races with 40 graded stakes winners and Eclipse winning champions Jaywalk and Wonder Wheel.
A graduate of Rutgers University with a degree in Accounting, Green earned his Master’s Degree in taxation with honors from New York University and also graduated from the Harvard Business School’s Owner/President Management Program.
For more than 20 years, Green has been teaching entrepreneurship at Babson College, which is rated the number one college in Entrepreneurship in the U.S.
Toothaker, a native of Van Buren, Arkansas attended Louisiana Tech University’s Equine program. He began his career working on the racetrack for trainers including Wayne Lukas, Joe Cantey, and Gerald Romero. He has also trained horses on his own. He then went into the military and served in the Army with the 10th Mountain Division in Fort Drum, NY.
Following his service, he and his wife moved back to Arkansas where they purchased a farm to begin his career in the breeding and stallion industry.
In 2004, he moved to Kentucky to manage Liberty Farm in Midway, KY for longtime breeder Allen Poindexter. He has also worked as a consignor and sold Breeders’ Cup winners including Kip Deville and Stardom Bound. He joined Spendthrift Farm in 2012.
Trusso, was employed by Farm Credit East before retiring in March of 2024. He led the Greenwich, New York branch staff for much of that time. He provided support to New York thoroughbred breeding farms, which saw considerable expansion with the 2003 VLT legislation making New York the best state to bred and race thoroughbreds.
The meeting and seminar will be conducted ahead of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga fall mixed sale on Tuesday, October 15. Fasig-Tipton which begins at 10 a.m.
To attend the seminar and membership meeting register Oct. 14 at nytbreeders.org/events.
Please RSVP by Friday, October 11. For more information, call NYTB at 518.587.0777 or send an email to info@nytbreeders.org.
