Questroyal Stud’s Barry Ostrager has been named president of the New York Thoroughbred Breeders board of directors.

Ostrager is the principal owner of Questroyal Stud in Claverack, New York, which stands Anasheed, Andromeda’s Hero, Jade Hunter, Patriot Act, and Roaring Fever.

Also elected new to the board for 2009 were Lois Engel of Pucker Ridge Farm in Warrensburg, New York, and John Thomas McMahon, who owns Old Saratoga Thoroughbreds and has served as farm manager of McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds for the past ten years.

Three board members were re-elected for two-year terms: Thomas J. Gallo III of Blue Stone Farm in Cambridge, New York, and owner and manager of Parting Glass Racing and the Thomas J. Gallo III Sales Agency, board vice president; Vivian Malloy, owner of Edition Farm in Waccabuc, New York, board secretary/treasurer; and Dr. Chris B. Purdy, owner of Ivy League Farm in Ithaca, New York.

The remaining five of the eleven directors on the 2009 board will, like Ostrager, be serving the second year of a two-year term: Suzie O’Cain, co-manager of Highcliff Farm in Delanson, New York, Dennis Brida, general manager of Stonebridge Farm; Chester Broman, owner of Chestertown Farm in Chestertown, New York; Joanne Nielson, owner of Sunnyfield Farm in Bedford, New York; and Becky Thomas Ray of Sequel Stallions New York.