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Haisfield purchases interest in Lawyer Ron

Last updated: 5/4/06 7:23 PM

Lawyer Ron will have a new co-owner

(Michael J. Marten/Horsephotos.com)

The Estate of James T. Hines Jr. announced Thursday that Our Legal Team LLC

has purchased a partial interest in Kentucky Derby (G1) contender LAWYER RON (Langfuhr).

Our Legal Team is solely owned by Audrey Haisfield, who also owns Stonewall Farm

near Versailles, Kentucky. Upon retirement, Lawyer Ron will stand at stud at

Stonewall.

Terms of the sale, including the percentage of ownership and cost, were not

disclosed.

Lawyer Ron will run in the Kentucky Derby in the name of Hines and wear

Hines' blue and white silks. Robert Holthus will remain the colt's trainer for

the Kentucky Derby.

"On behalf of the Hines estate, it was a difficult decision to make," said

Ron Bamberger, executor of the estate and the horse's namesake. "It was a joint

decision by interested family members and me as executor that this was the

course to take.

"Despite the sale of partial interest, Jim's dream to race in the Kentucky

Derby has still been achieved."

Lawyer Ron swept the major three-year-old races at Oaklawn Park, winning the

Arkansas Derby (G2) by 2 3/4 lengths in his last start. He is the 4-1 co-second

choice on the morning line for the Kentucky Derby and will break from post 17

under jockey John McKee.

The chestnut colt, out

of the Lord Avie mare Donation, has earned $1,220,008 from a record of 14-7-1-3.

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