Dr. Marshall Gramm is Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN. He has over a dozen academic publications related to the sport of horse racing in journals, including the Southern Economic Journal, Applied Economics, The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, and The Journal of Gambling Business and Economics. An avid horseplayer, Marshall won the 2020 Breeders Cup Betting Challenge. He has qualified for the last eight years for the National Horseplayers Championship, where he finished 9th in 2019. Marshall has been an owner of racehorses since he claimed his first horse in 2008. He co-founded Ten Strike Racing in 2016 with Clay Sanders. Since then, Ten Strike Racing has over 449 wins at 30 different racetracks. Ten Strike Racing has won 30 stakes races and won the Owners Title at Parx Racing in 2016 and 2017. Marshall has also bred five stakes horses from his modest broodmare band. He is on the board of the Thoroughbred Idea Foundation (TIF) and the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association (TOBA). Marshall holds a B.A. from Rice University and Ph.D. in Economics from Texas A&M University.
