Cheyenne Stables LLC and Nichol, Mac

Cheyenne Stables and Mac Nichol partner to own multiple graded stakes winner Madefromlucky.

Cheyenne Stables

Owner: Everett Dobson

Birthdate: July 4, 1959

Birthplace: Guthrie, Okla.

Residence: Oklahoma City, Okla.

Family: wife, Jeanetta; daughters, Amy, Dana and Haley

Everett Dobson (pictured), founder of Dobson Communications Corp., of Oklahoma City, is a longtime friend and sometimes racing and breeding partner with fellow Oklahoman Don McNeil. The two hit the jackpot with then 3-year-old Caleb’s Posse, winner of the 2011 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile. When McNeil chose to get rid of his racing stock after being diagnosed with leukemia, it was Dobson who urged him to keep at least one horse that they could race in partnership. Caleb’s Posse was that horse.

Dobson, who sold his communications company to AT&T in 2007, has a 260-acre breeding farm, Candy Meadows, near Lexington, Ky., and has bought into Three Chimneys Stallions as a minority partner.

Case Clay, Three Chimneys president, had this to say about Dobson’s investment: “With this injection of new capital, we have strengthened our ability to compete for top new stallions.”

Outside of racing, Dobson is a managing partner of the Oklahoma City Thunder of the NBA. 

Mac Nichol

Mac Nichol is mainly a Standardbred owner, winning many big races in the industry and owning about 25 harness racers. Nichol is running Madefromlucky for the ‘Stable of Horses That God Loves,’  a fundraising program for the Standardbred Racetrack Chaplaincy of Canada. Due to Madefromlucky being a part of that program, one percent of his purse earnings in 2015 go to the program, which helps racing industry workers in Ontario, Canada.