Jayeff B Stable

2009 Record: (123-24-15-18)

2009 Earnings: $631,090

2009 Win %: 19% In-The-Money %: 46%

Owner(s): Richard Santulli, managing general partner, and George Prussin
Born: Santulli, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Prussin, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Residence: Santulli, Jupiter, Fla.; Prussin, Tenafly, N.J.
Family: Prussin, wife Eva, eight children (including quadruplets)
Education: Santulli earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in applied mathematics and a master’s degree in operations research at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.
Professional Background: From 1969 to 1980, Santulli was an investment banker with Goldman Sachs & Co., where he held various managerial positions, including vice president of Investment Banking and President of Goldman Sachs Leasing Corporation … Purchased Executive Jet in 1984 ... Created the NetJets program, the concept of fractional jet ownership that has revolutionized the private and corporate business jet marketplace. Sold the company in 1998 to Berkshire Hathaway for $750 million ... Santulli resigned as the CEO of NetJets Inc. in Aug. 2009, but agreed to stay on as a consultant for 12 months ... Santulli is on the Board of Trustees of NYRA and became a member of The Jockey Club in 2002 ... He is a member and trustee of Breeders' Cup Ltd. In June 2009, Santulli was among 13 people elected to the Breeders’ Cup's 48-seat board of members and trustees ... He was one of seven incumbents re-elected and received the highest number of votes. He was later elected to the Breeders' Cup's 13-member board of directors ... He is co-chairman of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum and chairman of the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, which aids members of the armed forces, veterans and their families ... Prussin owns Sha-Li Leasing, a computer leasing firm based in Montvale, N.J.
Racing Background: Original partners Santulli, Prussin and David Orlinsky joined the late Jules Fink when the latter founded the racing stable in the early 1980s. The stable's name comes from the phonetic spelling of Fink's initials, with a "B" added to differentiate this operation from Fink's other racing stable
Breeding/Racing Operation: In 2009, Jayeff B has been represented as breeder by graded stakes winners Jonesboro and Kiss the Kid. A son of Hall of Fame member Mom's Command, Jonesboro took the G2 Prairie Meadows Cornhusker Handicap and G3 Texas Mile Stakes. Kiss the Kid's graded score came in the G3 Appleton Stakes ... Jayeff B has a large broodmare band, including 1990 Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Safely Kept, raced in partnership with Barry Weisbord. Besides her 1990 victory, she was second in the 1989 edition of the Sprint. Safely Kept received the Eclipse Award as the champion sprinter of 1989, and despite her Breeders’ Cup victory in 1990, she finished second behind Housebuster in Eclipse balloting. Her youngest foal is a 2-year-old Empire Maker colt named Safety Check. ... Jayeff B also campaigned multiple grade I winner Banshee Breeze, runner-up in the ’98 and ’99 Breeders’ Cup Distaff (now Ladies' Classic), in partnership with James Tafel, and Wonder Again, fourth in the 2005 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf with Phillips Racing Partnership and Bobby Flay ... Along with Wayne Lyster III, Jayeff B bred Johannesburg, winner of the 2001 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and the champion 2-year-old male that year. ... Jayeff B has owned two other Breeders’ Cup starters: Ciro, sixth in the 2000 Turf, and Navesink, 5th in the 2001 Mile ... A homebred, Ciro won the G1 Secretariat Stakes and G2 Lawrence Realization in 2000 ... Other Breeders' Cup starters bred by Jayeff B include Great Notion, eleventh in the 2003 Sprint, and Z Humor, fifth in the 2007 Juvenile.....Other stakes winners owned by Jayeff B include Jules, Cat Chat, and Awfully Smart ... Jayeff B bred the $11.7 million Kingmambo colt out of Crown of Crimson at the 2006 Keeneland September yearling sale, sold to Sheik Mohammad bin Rashid al Maktoum through consignor Burleson Farms, agent. Richard Santulli later reported that the reserve had been $2 million for the colt, who was later named Meydan City, and has won two of eight starts in Dubai.