Article: Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Pub Owner Promotes Buying Shares of Racehorses.

By Danielle T. Furfaro, Times Union, Albany, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 6--In her years as proprietor of the Parting Glass pub, Joan Desadora has gotten the chance to meet hundreds of people in the horse racing world. Eventually, she decided she wanted to become a horse owner.

In 1998, she bought a thoroughbred -- that is, a $25,000 share of one. And then a share of another.

After her first horse, Run Man Run, won its first race at Saratoga Race Course, Desadora received a great deal of publicity as someone without any experience in the industry who had made it as a horse owner. Suddenly, she was being approached by dozens ...

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