Winning Ponies

In Donna Barton Brothers' role at Starlight, she has been focusing on women in racing through Starlight and StarLadies Racing. Starlight Racing is the longtime core partnership that Jack & Laurie Wolf started in 2001. While they used to buy both colts and a few fillies, this year Starlight Racing will purchase only colts. StarLadies Racing is an all female partnership started by Laurie Wolf and Barbara Lucarelli. StarLadies Racing purchases only fillies. In 2011 Donna published a book titled 'Inside Track: Insider’s Guide to Horse Racing.' The Midsummer Derby will be a historic event. With Always Dreaming and stablemate Tapwrit, the Belmont Stakes winner who is also expected to run, it marks the first time that the 3 individual winners of three Triple Crown races will meet in the Travers since 1982, when Runaway Groom upset classic winners Gato del Sol, Aloma's Ruler, and Conquistador Cielo. John will be joined by one of the top handicappers in the country, DRF's Dan Illman.