Jockey Club elects five new members

The Jockey Club has elected five new members, including Vinnie Viola, the co-owner of this year’s Kentucky Derby winner, Always Dreaming.

Viola has been a racehorse owner since the late 1990s, operating under the name St. Elias Stables, while his wife, Teresa, operates the Teresa Viola Racing Stables. After a career on Wall Street, Viola purchased the Florida Panthers, a National Hockey League team, and he remains active in a number of philanthropies.

Also elected as members were Chester Broman, Louis Cella, Kenny Troutt, and Kevin Warsh.

Broman is a former board member of the New York Racing Association and the owner, with his wife, of Chestertown Farm in upstate New York. The Bromans have been named Breeder of the Year four times in New York.

Louis Cella is the grandson of John G. Cella and the son of Charles Cella, the president of Oaklawn Park, the Arkansas track that has been owned by the Cella family since opening in 1904. Louis Cella played a prominent role in the development of so-called Instant Racing machines, which are devices resembling slot machines that use already run races to determine payouts to players.

Troutt owns WinStar Farm in Central Kentucky, and he won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Owner in 2010 and for Outstanding Breeder in 2016. A former trainer, he founded a telecommunications company in 1988 in Texas.

Warsh is the co-owner of Jump Sucker Stables. He is a former member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System, serving from 2006 until 2011, and is the Shepard Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Economics at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and a lecturer at the university’s Graduate School of Business.