racing syndicate

Jack Bolton and Nico Bowden, friends since they were teenagers attending the same prep school, are young and they are smart. Bolton is a senior at USC and Bowden just graduated from MIT. For many such college graduates that might mean entering the work world with an eye on becoming a CEO or a lawyer or perhaps starting a hedge fund or doing something else on Wall Street. Not Bolton and Bowden. They have decided to get involved in the horse racing business. The two are partners in Triple Crown...

Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen believed the strongest man in the world is one who stands alone. "My father never wanted to complicate things, so he never really wanted another partner," explained Tim Cohen of his beloved father Jed, the much-missed scion of the Cohen clan, whose paprika-dusted silks have been carried with rare aplomb in recent years under the family's Red Baron's Barn and Rancho Temescal banner. "I'd have clients at the farm or friends, and they'd go, 'Gosh man, you're doing great. Can we buy into a horse with...