Jockey Club elects six new members

The Jockey Club has elected six new members, including Gary Barber, who owns a number of horses running in the top classes of racing.

Barber, the chief executive officer of Spyglass Media Group, a film production company, is a native of South Africa who campaigns War of Will, this year’s Preakness winner, and Got Stormy, the winner of the Grade 1 Fourstardave Handicap. He is a former chairman of Metro-Goldwyn Mayer.

The other newly elected members are Shannon Bishop Arvin, Terry Finley, Pope McLean Jr., Jaime Roth, and Chuck Winner.

Arvin is a member of the Lexington, Ky., law firm Stoll Kennon Ogden, which represents Keeneland Association, Breeders’ Cup Ltd., the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, and the National Thoroughbred Racing Association. She serves on the boards of Horse Country and the University of Kentucky Gluck Equine Research Foundation.

Terry Finley is the president and chief executive officer of the racing partnership company West Point Thoroughbreds, which has campaigned a number of top runners over the last two decades, including 2017 Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming (in partnership).

Pope McLean Jr. is the co-owner of his family’s Crestwood Farm in Kentucky and a member of the Keeneland board of trustees and its executive committee.

Jaime Roth races under her family’s LNJ Foxwoods Stable banner, which was founded in 2012. She serves on the board of the Thoroughbred Charities of America and founded the Horse First Fund, a charitable distribution arm of the TCA to assist horses in the event of natural disasters or other emergencies.

Chuck Winner is a horse owner who has been the chairman of the California Horse Racing Board since 2013. He is also the founder of several public and political communication companies.