Joseph LaCombe Stables

2010 Record: (2-1-0-0)

2010 Earnings: $11,100

2010 Win %: 50% In-The-Money %: 50%

Owner(s): Joseph LaCombe
Born: Oct. 9, 1932 in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Residence: West Palm Beach, Fla., and Cincinnati, Ohio
Family: wife, Irene; and three grown children, Joseph Jr., Andrew and Donna
Professional Background: Retired ... Had served was a regional vice president for Howard Schultz and Associates, an accounts payable auditing firm ... Owned and was president of one of the firm's franchises, Howard Schultz and Associates Central States Inc., serving Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Michigan and most of Tennessee ... Investor with a varied portfolio that includes real estate and securities
Racing Background: A racing fan for many years, LaCombe got involved as an owner in the mid-90s ... Brought into racing by a friend and Schultz colleague, Bill Bronstad ... As LaCombe recalls: "He owned some horses and asked if I would like to join him. I said 'That would be great.' I liked horses and I liked horse racing so that sounded like a fun thing to do."
Racing Career: Best known as the owner of 1997 Horse of the Year Favorite Trick, who capped a perfect eight-for-eight season in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Hollywood Park ... Favorite Trick was the first 2-year-old to be named Horse of the Year since Secretariat in 1972. The colt went on to finish eighth in both the 1998 Kentucky Derby and later that year in the Breeders' Cup Mile ... Also raced Polished Brass, winner of the 1997 Sanford Stakes at Saratoga ... Reached the Derby again in 2006 with Deputy Glitters, who also finished eighth, but did win the G3 Tampa Bay and G2 Ohio Derbys ... Another homebred, Slew's Tizzy, won the 2007 G2 Lexington Stakes at Keeneland and the G3 Lone Star Derby before finishing seventh in the Belmont Stakes ... The Tiznow colt recently returned to the races after a seven-month break with an impressive allowance win at Santa Anita on September 26 for new trainer Doug O'Neill. He is on target for the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile ... Slew's Tizzy's full-brother, Slew's Tiznow, was second in the 2008 G1 Lane's End Breeders' Futurity and is on target for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile. They would be LaCombe's first Breeders' Cup starters since Favorite Trick
Breeding/Racing Operation: Owns roughly a dozen horses on his own and in partnership ... He owns three broodmares, the standout being the Slewpy mare Hepatica, the dam of both Slew's Tizzy and Slew's Tiznow.