LANE'S END - Key Persons
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- Sales Director
- Leading Sales Consignor
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- Farm Tour and Hospitality Manager
Bill is involved in all aspects of operations at Lane's End and is active in promoting the Thoroughbred industry as a whole. He is currently Chairman of the Board of the Breeders' Cup, a post that he previously held for five years (2006-2011). He is also Chairman of Horse PAC and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Keeneland Association, the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation and the University of Kentucky's Gluck Equine Research Foundation.
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- Farm Manager, Oak Tree Division
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- Assistant Manager, Broodmares
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- Assistant Manager, Oak Tree Division
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- Assistant to Bill Farish and David Ingordo
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- Assistant Manager, Broodmares
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- Assistant Manager, Herd Health
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- Executive Assistant to Will Farish
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- Executive Assistant to Callan Strouss
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- Director of Equine Operations
A native of Houston, Texas, Will Farish is a lifelong horseman who raced his first stakes winner, Kaskaskia, in 1967. Since then, he has raced more than 165 stakes winners and bred more than 300 stakes winners, including 2003 Horse of the Year Mineshaft, 1992 Horse of the Year A.P. Indy, 1999 Horse of the Year Charismatic, and Champion Lemon Drop Kid. He was the first breeder since A. J. Alexander in 1880 to breed or co-breed two horses who combined to win the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont in the same year. In 1992 and in 1999 he was honored with an Eclipse Award as the year's leading breeder.
Farish served as Chairman of the Board of Churchill Downs from 1992 to 2001. He has been a Steward and Vice Chairman of The Jockey Club, a Director and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Breeders' Cup, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Keeneland Association. In 2006, Farish was appointed as a trustee to the Keeneland Association. In 2001, he was appointed by President George W. Bush as the United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James and served in that role for three years. He remains dedicated to the Thoroughbred industry and the betterment of the breed and the sport.