America's Best Racing, a multimedia fan development and awareness-building platform formed by The Jockey Club (TJC), has launched a new initiative designed to introduce racing to new fans. Named “A Stake in Stardom,” the program has tabbed brand ambassadors Sarah Cline and Joey Mulinaro to go behind the scenes as partial owners of 3-year-olds in partnership with West Point Thoroughbreds. Cline is best known as a TikTok influencer and Mulinaro is a former Barstool Sports contributor and impressionist. Each will receive a minority ownership stake in Giant Game (Giant's Causeway) and Vinco (Quality Road), respectively.
“This is a tremendous opportunity to reach and attract new fans to racing, enabling them to experience the sport and lifestyle of Thoroughbred racing like never before,” said Stephen B. Panus, president of TJC Media Ventures Inc. “By providing the brand ambassadors with an ownership stake in the racing career of the horses, everyone will have an inside, all-access look into a horse's preparation, care, and competitions, from stable to starting gate, through the unique lens and perspectives of Sarah Cline and Joey Mulinaro. We're incredibly grateful to Terry Finley and West Point Thoroughbreds for their collaboration with America's Best Racing and for helping to amplify the message that horse racing is truly a sport for everyone.”
Giant Game, third in the GI TVG Breeders' Cup Juvenile, was most recently off the board in the Mar. 12 GII Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby, while Vinco–a $1.5 million 2-year-old at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sale–was second in a Jan. 22 Fair Grounds maiden and also off the board in a subsequent try.
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