Mace Siegel

The Associated Press, The Associated Press ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) — Mace Siegel, a prominent owner and breeder of thoroughbreds in California and a developer of retail shopping malls, has died of heart failure. He was 86. He died Wednesday at his home in Beverly Hills, officials at Santa Anita Park said Thursday. Siegel campaigned horses in California with his wife, Jan, and daughter Samantha for 30 years. His wife died in 2002. The Siegels bought their first horse in 1964 and won their first stakes race in 1976, with Wininreno, who took the Julian Cole Handicap at Calder in Florida. They brought their stable to California on a full-time basis in the mid-1980s. The family had great success with modestly priced yearlings beginning in the late 1980s. The horses were selected at public auctions primarily by trainer Brian Mayberry and his wife Jeanne.