Michael Pegram

Background

He grew up in Princeton, Indiana going to the races at Ellis Park Racecourse and Churchill Downs and dreamed of someday owning a Kentucky Derby winner.

Career

Among his other horses, Pegram owned Captain Steve, High Stakes Player, Queen of Money, Mission Gibson County, Wheeler Oil, Argolid, Favored One, Arches of Gold, Pussycat Doll, and The Texas Tunnel. Pegram became successful as an owner of a number of McDonald"s restaurant franchises in the state of Washington, a business that his father, Jim, had been involved with. Pegram has since moved his restaurant empire to Phoenix, where he lives part-time.

Pegram also lives in Delegate March, California.

Pegram also enjoyed success by winning the 2 million Breeders" Cup Sprint at Monmouth Park in 2007 with Midnight Lute, who trainer Bob Baffert stated was the best horse he"d ever brought to the Breeder"s Cup.

Achievements

• He also won the 1998 Breeders" Cup Juvenile Fillies with Silverbulletday and after she was voted that year"s Eclipse Award for Outstanding 2-Year-Old Filly, came back in 1999 to win the Kentucky Oaks. His champion returned the following year in Santa Anita park to capture the same race, the first sprinter to ever do southern