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Fred Hertrich

Representing: 
Breeders' Cup Chairman
Biography: 

Hertrich was elected as a Breeders’ Cup board member in 2014. He has chaired the board's Sponsorship Committee and served as a member of the Audit and Finance Committee. A director since 2015 Hertrich will serve a two-year term as chairman.

Hertrich, born in Detroit, graduated from Bucknell University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in 1968. In 1975 Hertrich became the youngest Ford dealer in the United States, when he formed Frederick Ford Mercury in Seaford, Del.

Today he is the president of the Hertrich Family of Automobile Dealerships, which is comprised of 18 new vehicle dealerships that represent 19 different franchises in Delaware, Maryland, Colorado, and New Jersey. The organization is ranked in the top 50 privately owned retail automobile groups in North America.

Over the years Hertrich has been actively involved in both the Standardbred and Thoroughbred industries in Maryland, Delaware, and Kentucky. Under Hertrich's proprietorship at Watercress Farm, 14 graded stakes winners and more than 60 graded stakes-placed or listed winners have been bred, raised, and sold commercially from Watercress, including grade 1 winner and champion, Shamardal, and grade 1 winners Boys At Tosconova and Street Boss. This year's crop is represented by graded winner Catholic Boy.