Frank Antonacci

Question. After Taylor Made, which consignment sold the most yearlings in a single sale at Lexington this year? Here's a clue. Its principal also co-manages the company that hosted record turnover at the same auction. If you need an extra steer, this gentleman additionally manages the syndicate behind the hottest stallion of his type in the land. Yes? No? Well, okay, does it help if we add that he also put together the ownership of a record-breaking mare that banked $5.5 million on the track? Enough already. Because if you...

Increasingly prominent Thoroughbred owner Frank Antonacci, a partner with David Reid in Ice Wine Stables who campaigned No Nay Never (Scat Daddy) in partnership with the Magnier family, has been elected to the Harness Racing Hall Of Fame, the organization announced Friday. Antonacci, known as "Frank The Elder," is a second-generation member from one of harness racing's most famous and successful families. The family initially began operating Lindy Farms, a Standardbred farm located first in New York and then in Connecticut, and as part of the Crown Stables, which include...

The Antonacci family's Lindy Farms, a multi-generation Standardbred breeding and racing institution which also owns a Thoroughbred operation, has been voted winner of the Stan Bergstein/Proximity Award. It is the highest award bestowed by the United States Harness Writers Association (USHWA). With a 1,000-acre breeding and training operation in Connecticut, the Antonaccis have bred and raced Standardbreds at the highest level. Their stable has included Moni Maker, a trotter that retired as the richest female Standardbred in history with more than $5 million in earnings. Cousins Frank and Guy "Sonny"...

One of the favorites for Standardbred racing's ultimate prize has significant connections to the Thoroughbred world. Ready For Moni, the 3-1 morning line second choice in Saturday afternoon's $1 million Hambletonian at the Meadowlands, was bred by the Moni Maker Stable's Frank Antonacci and David Reid, the principals behind Thoroughbred racing's Ice Wine Stable that has campaigned such stars at No Nay Never, now standing at Coolmore Stud in Ireland, and this year's promising 2-year-old Fauci (Malibu Moon). Reid is also the owner of Preferred Equine Marketing, a dual-breed sales...