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Charlotte Weber
Posted: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 11:05 AM
CHARLOTTE WEBER
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Live Oak Stud, Live Oak Plantation
In giving talented horses more time to develop than some other Thoroughbred owners, Charlotte Weber has been rewarded by those horses.
At age seven, homebred Miesque’s Approval won the NetJets Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) and earned champion turf male honors. Not that all of Weber’s horses take a few years. Homebred High Fly won the 2005 Fountain of Youth Stakes (G2) and Florida Derby (G1) and was a top contender for that season’s Triple Crown.
A granddaughter of Campbell Soup Co. founder John Dorrance, Weber has pursued her passions of Thoroughbreds and art. In 1968, she first acquired 1,000 acres in Ocala of what is now the 4,500-acre Live Oak Plantation. She also is a member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art board of trustees and provided funding for the museum’s Charlotte C. Weber Galleries for the Arts of Ancient China.
Live Oak purchased the Giant’s Causeway filly My Typhoon (Ire) for $2,942,730 at the 2002 Tattersalls Ltd. December mixed sale, a record price at the time for a weanling filly. My Typhoon won the 2007 Diana Stakes (G1) and seven other stakes in four seasons of racing. Now a member of the Live Oak broodmare band, the half sister to 2009 European Horse of the Year Sea The Stars and ’01 European champion three-year-old male Galileo (Ire) produced an Awesome Again colt last year and a Distorted Humor colt this year.
“You try to breed the best to the best,” Weber said in a statement on the Live Oak website. “If you are fortunate as I am, and you are able to race the horses you breed and give them the time necessary, they will return the investment. I do not want the instant profit or quick returns generated by running horses before they are ready.”
Birthplace: Philadelphia
Residences: Ocala; New York, New York; Hobe Sound, Florida
Title: Owner, breeder
Company: Live Oak Stud, Live Oak Plantation
Education: Studied art and interior design at l’Ecole du Louvre at the University of Paris
Family: Four children
Career: Serves on the board of directors for Campbell Soup Co.
Favorite horse: Sultry Sun
Professional achievements: Named Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association outstanding owner and breeder of 1991 and national owner of the year, 2005; named Penny Chenery Distinguished Woman in Racing in ’05
What advice would you give other women interested in the racing industry? "Stand up tall and make the industry take you seriously."
What other women involved in racing to you look up to? Penny Chenery, Betty Moran, Josephine Abercrombie, Marylou Whitney, Elizabeth Arden, Helen Groves
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