Moore didn’t grow up racing in his backyard. He was watching the sport and heard about Wisconsin native and Hall of Fame coach D. Wayne Lukas, whose success intrigued him. Years later, watching his daughter fall in love with horses sparked Moore’s own reconnection with thoroughbred racing. “And it was around that time that I really started getting into the racing side of things,” he noted, “because that was more where my path was: not so much sitting on the backs and driving around like it is for them (his wife and daughter). For me, it was the racing and the industry in general that – it always piqued my interest.” Moore owns an off-track Thoroughbred named Windy OKC, who he called his “best friend.”
Like many newcomers to the sport, Moore was initially concerned that he could not afford to own all or part of a racehorse. “I’m one of those guys who always thought it was out of reach for me. There was no way I could ever own a horse and actually race a horse. And I just never thought I would have the money for it. And so you start doing research and you can see some of them, like this MyRacehorse with the fractional ownership options.”
Moore spoke to Jason Blewitt of West Point Thoroughbreds, who explained the ins and outs and costs of owning a racehorse. Moore decided that he could finally afford to embark on a solo ownership journey. But he does own parts of 10 runners at America’s Thoroughbred Investors.
His family has also fallen in love with the sport. In fact, it’s his daughter — who was pen pals with Kate Tweedy, daughter of Secretariat owner Penny Chenery — who inspired the stable’s name, Silo Skyline Farms, after two silos she could see from her bedroom window.
After purchasing his first horse in December 2024, Moore has already become a fixture in the winners’ circle. Ohio-bred Nice charade won three times in 2025, while the Red wine ruin Peripoli broke his girl on Dec. 13 at Tampa Bay Downs. Global event co-owned by Blazing Meadows Farm LLC and America’s Thoroughbred Investors, broke his first year in August and placed in a 2025 stake while hard at work Liberate owned by America’s Thoroughbred Investors, won four times last year.
Moore would like to see breeding and racing come to Wisconsin. An important step was learning more about TOBA as an organization, and even attending a breeding seminar in Kentucky. He added: “So that was a great experience, to go there and meet some people and go to some of the farms and just learn a lot more about what they do. But when I was there and on those farms and saw the breeding barns and the way the pastures are laid out, and when I was there in May, I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, so much of Kentucky reminds me of Wisconsin. It’s rolling hills and it’s great farming and there’s fields and meadows everywhere and the only thing what we are missing is the four-rail.’ We just don’t have that. We have cows everywhere. So that triggered something in me to maybe try to establish a TOBA here.”
Moore noted that there is the infrastructure to make such a task possible. A state statute allows parimutuel racing, he said, and there was a racing commission until 2010. The first reactions were positive. Moore explained, “So a lot of people have been educated, I had a nice conversation here with my local state legislator, and we were just talking about a lot of the peripheral jobs and the economic impact that ranching could have here. And this was a fairly recent conversation and I’m really interested in pushing that much further with him because he’s completely on board with it. It’s something that would have minimal cost, if any, to just re-establish the board. And then we can start talking about things like breeding incentives and what it will take to actually start breeding in Wisconsin again.”
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