Meet manager Bill Cartwright
As Manager, Bill will assume sole responsibility for selecting and managing the horses along with the administrative duties on behalf of the L.L.C. Bill brings hands-on expertise, integrity and his own passion for the sport. His experience includes working at such top-tiered tracks as Arlington Park, Churchill Downs, Keeneland and Gulfstream Park, where he handled the daily operations of a top training stable and as a result, has gained invaluable insight to the selection and management of a successful thoroughbred stable. Bill also has three years of experience working under Harvey Vanier, an established breeder, owner and trainer. Harvey has conditioned such top stakes horses as Western Playboy (a Kentucky Derby starter) and Playfellow, both winners of the Bluegrass Stakes.
Bill further adds value to his role as Manager by having worked as an assistant for an equine veterinarian and blacksmith, having owned horses himself, and by having cultivated several professional relationships in the thoroughbred industry.

In addition to a working knowledge of the horse-racing business, Bill Cartwright has over twenty years experience in the futures trading environment at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Immediately after his graduation from Whitney Young Magnet High School in Chicago, he went to work for Stotler & Co. as a floor runner. He quickly advanced from Runner to Operations Supervisor, and this career enabled him to purchase into horse partnerships at a young age.
In 1989, he resigned from Stotler and followed his calling into the world of thoroughbred horseracing when he went to work for Horizon Farms in Barrington, Illinois. Bill worked without pay for an entire summer in order to gain a hands-on education of the thoroughbred world. His passion for his work and the horses was quickly recognized, and one of the track vets introduced him to Harvey Vanier. Bill’s hard work landed him a position with Vanier.
For the next three years, Bill lived on the track and took on the responsibility of caring for the horses. He assisted in all aspects of maintaining the stable, from hot-walking to assisting the blacksmith and equine vets, to grooming and race preparations. After three years of long hard hours on the track with the thoroughbreds, Bill returned to Chicago to trade S&P futures.

He has an acquired working knowledge of the ins and outs of the futures business and a proven ability to persevere and excel as evidenced by his advance from Runner to Operations Supervisor to Futures trader. As a credit to his innate attention to detail and trustworthiness he has consistently handled reconciliations for over ten trading members on the Exchange over the past fifteen years. His experience has honed his ability to make decisions under high pressure situations, to exercise diligence and patience, and to manage risk, skills imperative to any horse owner and/or partnership manager.
Bill never left the horse-racing world. He has followed horse-racing with a verve and has maintained relationships with trainers, vets, owners and other horse industry contacts at Gulfstream Park, Keeneland, Churchill Downs and Arlington. Currently Bill works for Refco, and is now returning to what he knows best, the thoroughbred.
Bill’s secondary interests are golf, guitar and books (he has read practically everything on the thoroughbred industry and subscribes to Thoroughbred Times, TVG, and Blood Horse).