Lewis Family To Sell Shares In Stable To Help Promote Sport
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Lewises Aiming To Bring More
Owners To Horse Racing |
Thoroughbred owners BOB and BEVERLY LEWIS "will
sell a 10[%] interest in their stable of 2-year-old thoroughbreds to attract
new owners to horse racing," according to Curtis Eichelberger of BLOOMBERG NEWS.
The group is called PREMIER THOROUGHBRED VENTURES. Bob Lewis said that
he and his wife will "select 15 'high-profile, high-income individuals' who've
never owned a thoroughbred to invest in 27 horses who were bought at public
auction." Each share will cost about $135,000, "though the possible addition
of three more horses might increase the price slightly." Thoroughbred Daily
News President & co-Publisher BARRY WEISBORD, who is promoting the sale,
said that Lewis "would like at least five of the investors to be 'cultural celebrities'
who could help publicize the sport. Lewis: "It opens the door to a vast number
of people who could say to themselves, 'I'll take a flyer'" (BLOOMBERG NEWS,
3/12).
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