Leslie Combs II

[1] He spent a year in Guatemala working for Herbert F. Schlubach at the South American Plantation Company and contracted malaria there.

He returned to Kentucky and worked for the American Rolling Mill Company in Ashland.

[1] He moved to Huntington, West Virginia and started his own business, the Combs-Ritter Insurance Company.

In 1937, he bought 127 acres in Lexington from Daniel Swigert and called it Spendthrift Farm in honor of Spendthift.

[3] He married Dorothy Enslow, daughter of the founder of the Columbia Gas and Electric Company, in 1924.