Howard Keck

Keck's Indy car team, fronted by driver Bill Vukovich, won the Indianapolis 500 in 1953 and 1954.

Keck and his wife Elizabeth were prominent figures in the American Thoroughbred horse racing industry.

Keck owned and bred American Horse of the Year Ferdinand, who won the 1986 Kentucky Derby and the 1987 Breeders' Cup Classic.

[1] He originally owned the land that would become Moraga Estates, and he sold it to a developer in the 1970s, when it was turned into a forty-residence gated community in Bel Air.

[1] A resident of Los Angeles, he died in 1996 at the age of eighty-three at St. John's Hospital and Health Center in Santa Monica.