While Frank remains busy acquiring racetracks for Magna Entertainment, his Adena Springs racing stable continues to thrive throughout North America. The Canadian-based chairman of Magna Entertainment made his first racetrack purchase late in 1998, acquiring Santa Anita Park, one of the true gems of Thoroughbred racing. Following that initial purchase he has added Gulfstream Park, Golden Gate Fields, Lone Star Park, Thistledown, Remington Park, Bay Meadows, Great Lakes Downs, Laurel, and Pimlico, among others, to his company’s holdings. These facilities continue to play important roles within the racing industry, as Santa Anita hosted the Breeders’ Cup in 2003 and Lone Star played host in 2004.

Frank is a great believer in innovation. One of his most successful creations is the Sunshine Millions Series, a $3.6 million race day which pits the best Florida-breds against the best California-breds in a series of races at Santa Anita and Gulfstream. Held annually in January, this unique series has been embraced by horsemen and fans alike.

Another initiative in which we are most proud was announced in August 2005, when Frank partnered with the University of Guelph to build a first-rate equine veterinary clinic at Adena Springs North in Ontario, Canada.

While Frank was collecting racetracks, his racing and breeding operations continued to meet with unprecedented success. He won the Eclipse Award as champion breeder in the U.S. for 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007, to go along with his breeder’s Eclipse in 2000, and thus became the first in history to be champion Breeder five times in eight years. He also won Eclipse Awards as leading Owner in 1998, 1999, and 2000.

What’s more, Frank has taken home ten Sovereign Awards in the past ten years, including 2007 honors, as Canada’s top owner and/or breeder. Adena Springs is the only program to win the Eclipse Award and Sovereign Award as leading breeder in the same year (accomplished in 2005, 2006, and 2007). Frank is recognized as North America’s top breeder for the past five years by stakes winners and earnings, and he is the first to breed a Breeders’ Cup Classic-G1 winner who sired a Breeders’ Cup Classic winner – Awesome Again (1998), sire of Ghostzapper (2004). 
Adena Springs has expansive farms based in Lexington, Ocala and Toronto. Each of these beautiful nurseries serves as home to his extensive broodmare band, and the Kentucky and Florida facilities are stallion stations which house some of the industry’s most sought-after progenitors.

Frank is able to bring from his various Magna ventures a perspective that is unique to racetrack management. His determination and commitment to initiate a successful rejuvenation of the industry best demonstrate this perspective. It is interesting in that regard to restate what Frank has often said about the components of the “racetrack experience”: “We have a mandate, and that is to provide a safe environment for horses, to provide humane conditions for the backside, and to make it enjoyable for our customers.”

The Stronach family’s commitment to first-class racing comes from a more elemental source – that is, a simple commitment to the horse. This commitment extends to quality bloodlines, quality racetrack performance and quality conditions for breeding, raising and training the horse. It is the drive to excel in every aspect of horsemanship that Frank refers to as a “labor of love, my passion.”