Herman Sarkowsky

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

2010 Earnings: $5,280

2010 Win %: 0% In-The-Money %: 100%

Born: June 9, 1925, in Gera, Germany. Family left Germany in 1934, settling in New York and later moving to Seattle
Residence: Seattle, Wash.
Family: wife, Faye; children, Steven and Cathy; three grandsons, Noah, Shiah, and Max
Education: B.A. in business from the University of Washington
Professional Background: Owner of Sarkowsky Investment Corporation, a real estate development and private investment firm. He also serves as a director of HLTH, a business, technology and information solutions company that serves the health care industry ... He formerly owned United Homes Corp., which became the Seattle area's largest homebuilder during the 1960s. Sold the company to ITT in 1969 ... Sarkowsky was an investor in Northwest Racing Associates, which developed Emerald Downs in Auburn, Wash. ... A former managing partner and co-founder in the Seattle Seahawks of the NFL and Portland Trail Blazers of the NBA, but has since sold all interests ... Active in numerous UW affairs, currently serving as director of University of Washington Medicine ... Sarkowsky has served on Hollywood Park's board of directors ... Former board director of Children's Hospital Foundation and Seattle Art Museum
Racing Background: In 1960, purchased $2,000 claimer Forin Sea in partnership with late Glen Williams (then a trainer and later the racing secretary at Longacres) ... Later entered partnerships with Martin Wygod
Breeding/Racing Operation: Owns 37 horses, including 11 mares ... The mares are boarded at Stonereath Farm in Kentucky, Woodstead Farm in Washington, and River Edge Farm in California ... Also keeps horses at Hidden Brook Farm in Kentucky ... Majority of his stock is trained by Richard Mandella with a few in Washington with Grant Forster ... Sarkowsky bred and raced Phone Chatter, champion 2-year-old filly of 1993 and winner of that year's Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. Phone Chatter is the second dam of 2007 G1 Norfolk winner Dixie Chatter ... Sold a 2003 yearling filly out of Phone Chatter (by Storm Cat) for $1.3 million at the Keeneland July yearling sale ... Top horses raced also include homebred Dixie Union, raced in partnership with Gerald Ford's Diamond A Racing, winner of the 2000 G1 Haskell Invitational and sire of Dixie Chatter, and Pirate's Glow (campaigned with Wygod), ninth in the 1984 Juvenile Fillies ... Also bred 1995 Breeders' Cup Sprint runner-up Mr. Greeley ... Dixie Chatter was scratched from the 2007 Breeders' Cup after coming down with a slight fever two days prior to the race ... He also missed the 2008 Triple Crown season, not returning to the races until May 18 with a third in the G3 La Barrera Memorial Stakes ... In his most recent race, he won the restricted Oceanside Stakes at Del Mar ... Sarkowsky hopes to have better luck at the 2008 Breeders' Cup with another son of Dixie Union, One Union in the Turf Sprint ... The 5-year-old horse most recently finished third in the G3 Morvich Handicap at Santa Anita on September 24.