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Owner Profiles<br />
Lambholm Stable<br />
Owner: Roy S. Lerman<br />
Born: September 6, 1943<br />
Birthplace: New York City<br />
Family: Wife, Shirley, son, Ethan<br />
Farm Location: Ocala, FL<br />
Tampa Trainer: Roy S. Lerman<br />
Lambholm South owner Roy S. Lerman has been involved with Thoroughbreds<br />
as an owner, breeder and trainer for more than 35 years. In the spring of 2000,<br />
he purchased the late Allen Paulson’s Ocala-based Brookside Farms South,<br />
renaming the operation Lambholm South. Five years later, he purchased<br />
historic 1,800-acre Hobeau Farm, expanding Lambholm South’s holdings.<br />
Trainer/General Manager Junior Serna, who moved to Ocala in 1977, has<br />
overseen a training program that has produced such national champions as<br />
Slew o’ Gold, Personal Ensign, Epitome, Flawlessly, Azeri and Speightstown.<br />
The Lambholm South name is also familiar to Tampa Bay Downs fans because<br />
of its sponsorship of major race-day events. The Lambholm South Tampa<br />
Bay Derby, a Grade II, $350,000 race for 3-year-old Triple Crown candidates,<br />
was contested March 12, 20<strong>16</strong> and won by subsequent Belmont Stakes<br />
runner-up Destin. Lambholm South is the first title sponsor of the Tampa Bay<br />
Derby since 1986. Lambholm South also sponsors the Grade III, $150,000<br />
Endeavour Stakes for older fillies and mares and is presenting sponsor of the<br />
track’s Festival Preview Day. Lerman is a successful on-track trainer; in 2015,<br />
he saddled his 4-year-old filly Evidently to win the Florida Cup Distaff Turf in<br />
stakes-record time.<br />
Ridenjac Racing<br />
(Dennis Ward)<br />
Born: August 25, 1946<br />
Birthplace: Seattle, WA<br />
Residence: Tampa, FL<br />
Family: Wife, Jeanne;son Wesley; grandsons,Riley and Jack;granddaughter,Denae<br />
First Win: Yes Father, Portland Meadows, early-1970s<br />
Started Training: Portland Meadows<br />
Circuit: Tampa Bay Downs, Monmouth Park<br />
Ridenjac had another solid meeting last season, with nine victories from 66<br />
starts. Owner-trainer Dennis Ward is the father of Wesley Ward, the 1984<br />
Eclipse Award winner as Outstanding Apprentice Jockey and a heralded trainer<br />
in his own right. So the elder Ward didn’t have far to look when naming his<br />
stable after Wesley’s three children: Riley, Denae and Jack (RI-DEN-JAC).<br />
Besides paving the road for Wesley, Dennis Ward had a hand in helping tutor<br />
three other Eclipse Award-winning apprentice jockeys: Dale Beckner (1994),<br />
Ariel Smith (1999) and Christian Santiago Reyes (2009). Dennis Ward was<br />
a top apprentice jockey in 1962 at Longacres in Washington state and also<br />
enjoyed success as a jockey in New York and on the East Coast. He stopped<br />
riding in 1968, a week after Wesley was born, and worked as a jockey’s agent<br />
and valet while schooling Wesley on what it takes to be a championship jockey.<br />
Wesley was <strong>16</strong> when he won the Eclipse, winning 335 races. In 2009, he<br />
became the first American trainer to win a race at the Royal Ascot meeting in<br />
England; he saddled Strike the Tiger and Jealous Again on successive days<br />
with his proud father in attendance. The elder Ward saddled Houyhnhnm<br />
Stable’s Great Attack, winner of back-to-back editions of the Turf Dash, for his<br />
son.<br />
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