Four new members elected to Jockey Club

The Jockey Club on Monday announced the election of four new members: W.B.

Rogers Beasley, John Magnier, Rosendo (Ro) Parra, and Thomas S. Robbins.

Beasley has served as Keeneland director of racing since 2001 and was the

track's sales director for 19 years prior to his current post. He currently

serves on the boards of the Kentucky Equine Drug Research Council, the Kentucky

Horse Park, the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium, and the Racing

Officials Accreditation Program. He served on the American Graded Stakes

Committee for nine years and is a past board member of the Thoroughbred Club of

America.

John Magnier, generally acknowledged to be one of the most influential people

in world racing and breeding, presides over Coolmore Stud, which has branches in

Ireland, Kentucky (Ashford Stud), and the Hunter Valley (Coolmore Australia).

The Magnier family has been associated with a long sequence of top-class

stallions since the 1850s, originally in Co. Cork, Ireland, where stallions

still stand as part of Coolmore today. Magnier has part-owned or -bred four of

the last five Epsom Derby (Eng-G1) winners.

Parra is the owner of Millennium Farms in Lexington, Kentucky. His first

involvement in racing came as a fan in South America. He bought his first horse

in 1995 and has campaigned approximately 40 stakes winners, including multiple

Grade 1 winner Student Council. He also bred Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) winner

Wilko. Parra retired from Dell Inc. in 2007 where he served as senior vice

president and general manager of Dell Americas. Today, Parra serves on several

boards and is involved in venture capital.

Robbins is Del Mar Thoroughbred Club's executive vice president for racing

and industry relations. He previously served as racing secretary, director of

racing, and executive vice president from 1981 until 2014. He is also the

chairman of the North American Ratings Committee and the Racing

Secretaries/Directors Breeders' Cup Selection Panel and a member of the American

Graded Stakes Committee, as well as an advisor to the North American

International Catalogue Standards Committee and the U.S. representative to the

World's Best Racehorse Rankings Committee.

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