NEWS
Samantha Siegel
Posted: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 2:46 PM
SAMANTHA SIEGEL
Benoit & Associates photo
Jay Em Ess Stable
Picking out 2004 champion two-year-old male Declan’s Moon and Grade 1 winner Rail Trip were career highlights for owner Samantha Siegel, but finding quality racehorses at auction is an evolving process.
“I say that finding horses is like a guy going into a bar looking for a woman. Everybody likes something different,” she said. “We want a well-balanced, athletic-looking horse. We find that if they have a lot of pedigree, you pay more. So we go for athletes over pedigree.”
Siegel plucked Declan’s Moon from the 2003 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern fall yearling sale for $125,000 for her family’s Jay Em Ess Stable. He ticked all of the boxes and she said he would have cost quite a bit more had he not been gelded.
Rail Trip, winner of the Californian Stakes (G2) on June 12 and the early favorite for a repeat win in the Hollywood Gold Cup Handicap (G1), was a $200,000 purchase at the 2006 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July sale of selected yearlings.
Siegel was introduced to Thoroughbred racing by her father, Mace, and mother, Jan, who died of cancer in 2002, and credits them as her biggest influence.
Jay Em Ess has about 80 horses in training and boards about 12 mares in Central Kentucky.
Siegel was appointed to the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association Sales Integrity Program Monitoring Committee in 2008 and serves on the board of the Edwin J. Gregson Foundation.
Date of birth: May 10, 1965
Birthplace: New York, New York
Residence: Beverly Hills, California
Title: Manager, owner
Company: Jay Em Ess Stable
Education: Attended college
Family: Single
Career: Trainee in family business
Favorite horse: Stormy But Valid
What book are you currently reading? Hollywood Park condition book
Favorite television show: “True Blood”
Biggest personal achievement: “Having the only winning pick six ticket at Del Mar on August 9, 2007.”
Outside interests: Tennis
What women in racing do you look up to? Alice Chandler, Jenine Sahadi, Linda Rice
What other women outside of racing do you look up to? Jan Siegel, Montan Peri
Personal motto: “Enjoy it while it lasts, and don’t plan too far ahead.”
Outlook on the industry: “Owners need a bigger piece of the pie.”
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Posted by: kurt, green forest, AR on December 13, 2010 at 08:27 PM
Icant find the segal/siegel pedigree I need some help to find the siegel pedigree with my mothers name on it. god bless you and hve a nice evening. I just want to know do you know jwsus because he is coming really soon if you dont know him please ask him to come into your heart and foregive you for all of the sins that you did against him and you will be good to go but you got to pray alot to kep satun from takeing you down with him no go with the lord and he will be with you for ever and ever.
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