"The closing of Arlington Park and the death of several close friends in the horse business caused me to reevaluate my priorities at a stage in life when it’s time to slow down," Cox said.

Cox, 62, a commodities broker and member of the Chicago Board of Trade for 37 years, resides in Oak Brook, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.

With a band of broodmares that numbered between 10 and 15, he bred in his name or in a partnership more than 25 stakes winners including two champions and a classic winner.

Cox is a regular consignor to Keeneland’s July Selected Yearling Sale and raced a small stable that campaigned primarily in Illinois, Kentucky and Florida.

From Cox’s consignment in the 1984 summer sale came Irish champion and leading sire Woodman, and European champion two-year-old of 1985, Bakharoff. He also sold Shaadi, winner of the 1989 Two Thousand Guineas, and Grade 1 stakes winners Marquetry and Jade Hunter.

Cox typically sold the colts he bred and raced the fillies, including a pair of Grade 1 stakes winners – Banker’s Lady and Classy Cathy. Both are among the broodmares in his dispersal. Cox also campaigned stakes winners Impetuous Gal, Regal Gal, Ms. Margi, Sum, Royal Cielo and Sports View.

Cox is a long-time client of Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky. He also bred and sold horses in partnership with the late Warner L. Jones, Jr. His trainer and friend for more than 25 years, Joe Bollero, died in 1991.

Stuart Janney III, who resides in Butler, Maryland, and W. James Host, of Lexington, have been appointed to the board of directors of the Keeneland Association.

Janney, who is chairman of Bessemer Trust Company, N.A., and Bessemer Securities Corporation, is the owner of Coronado’s Quest. Coronado’s Quest won the Grade I Travers Stakes, the Grade I Haskell Stakes, the Grade II Dwyer Stakes, the Grade II Wood Memorial and the Grade II Riva Ridge this year. In addition, Janney is associated with a number of organizations. Janney is the chairman of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeder’s Association, steward of the Jockey Club, chairman of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, trustee of Johns Hopkins Medicine and Johns Hopkins University, director of the Maryland Horsebreeder’s Association, director of the National Thoroughbred Association and chairman of the Maryland Zoological Society.

Host is chairman and chief executive officer of Lexington-based Host Communications, which has 21 offices nationwide. Founded in 1971, the company has become nationally known for college sports marketing and association management. Host Communications has handled all corporate marketing, publishing and radio for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) since 1976. In addition, the company owns the worldwide rights outside the United States for the NCAA in television and merchandising in a joint-venture with another group.

Host Communications also does work for a number of nationally known universities like the University of Kentucky, the University of Tennessee and Notre Dame.

As of September 1, 1998 the Jockey Club reported, that 4,979 stallions covered 60,054 mares on Northern Hemisphere time in 1997. These coverings have resulted in 34,033 foals of 1998 being reported to the Jockey Club on Live Foal Reports received as of August 31.

Jockey Club vice president of registration services, Roger Shook, warned that 1998 foal count is not complete. He estimated that only 90 percent of live foal reports have been received.

"A small percentage of breeders have not submitted their live foal reports on time which makes its difficult to meaningfully compare these statistics to those of the previous year," he said. "However, the nominal increases in the number of mares bred and live foals so far reported support our 1998 foal crop forecast of 36,000."

The number of stallions decreased 4.6 percent from the 5,220 reported in 1996 at this time last year. There was a 0.6 percent increase on the 59,719 mares reported in 1996. The Jockey Club stressed that the statistics should not be taken as representing the fertility record of any one stallion.

Thoroughbred breeding activity in Kentucky outpaced all other regions. In the Bluegrass State, 17,934 mares reported bred in 1997 produced 12,165 live foals (1996/97, 16,895 mares bred/ 11,288 live foals). Florida reported 6,041 mares bred and 3,622 live foals (5,895/3,455) while California reported 4,812 mares bred and 3,075 live foals (4,919/2,985).