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Horse Racing

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

90 North Makes Racehorse Ownership Affordable, Transparent, Fun

Georgetown University law student Justin Nicholson's new Bethesda-based horse racing syndicate makes it possible for partners to buy shares of hand-picked racehorses.

Since he was a kid, Justin Nicholson has been around horses. His dad started owning horses when Nicholson—now 26 and a resident of Chevy Chase—was only 2 or 3 years old. Less than two decades later, Nicholson had taken over most of the operational side of the family's horse business—going to horse sales and talking daily with the horse trainers. When he started law school at Georgetown University, Nicholson couldn't stop thinking about horses and the horse racing business, so after a year of law school, he left to start his own horse racing syndicate. Get daily and breaking news email updates from Georgetown Patch by signing up for newsletters here. Nicholson founded 90 North Racing Stable as a business through which the public may buy …

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