Racing Hall of Fame jockey and Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Johnny Longden, his son Vance, and businessmen and Frank McMahon, Wilder H. Ripley, and Max Bell.
[1] The business leased part of Bell and McMahon's 640-acre (260 ha) Golden West Farms Thoroughbred breeding operation at Okotoks, Alberta and based their racing stable in Los Angeles, California.
The racing partnership notably owned Royal Serenade, a colt they bought in England and brought to California where he won the 1953 Hollywood Gold Cup.
Max Bell and Frank McMahon owned other top horses such as the colt Meadow Court in a partnership with friend, Bing Crosby.
Meadow Court raced in Europe where he won the 1965 Irish Derby and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.