by Jeff Lowe

Robert Clay, the vice chairman of Breeders’ Cup Ltd., did not receive enough votes for re-election to the Breeders’ Cup board of members and trustees.  

Three other incumbents, Robert Cromartie, Leverett Miller, and J.V. Shields Jr., were not re-elected to the 48-member panel. Clay and Shields also had been members of the Breeders’ Cup board of directors that oversees the general operations of Breeders’ Cup Ltd.  

Foal and stallion nominators elected 12 representatives from 21 candidates.

Incumbents Helen Alexander, Bill Farish, Terry Finley, Lucy Young Hamilton, Maria Niarchos-Gouaze, Charles Nuckols III, and Mark Taylor, were re-elected.

Doug Cauthen, Bill Oppenheim, Don Robinson, Charlotte Weber, and Barry Weisbord will be new members. They all will serve three-year terms, pending ratification by the current board of members and trustees at its July 11 meeting.

The election’s other candidates were Clay, Cromartie, Miller, Shields, Bobby Flay, Arnold Kirkpatrick, Allan Lavin Jr., James McAlpine, and Ric Waldman.

The board of members and trustees, which meets at least annually, will elect seven members to the Breeders’ Cup board of directors in the July 11 meeting, including the two positions previously occupied by Clay and Shields. Farish, Finley, Antony Beck, R. D. Hubbard, and Satish Sanan will be eligible for re-election for two-year terms.

The other six directors—Reynolds Bell, Donald Dizney, Tracy Farmer, B. Wayne Hughes, G. Watts Humphrey, and Robert Manfuso—are serving two-year terms that will expire in July 2009. 

 Jeff Lowe is a Thoroughbred Times staff writer