R. A. Hill Stable and Gatsas Stables

Raymond Hill III is from Franklin Lakes, N.J., and grew up going to Monmouth Park with his mother. When a Wall Street deal paid off 17 years ago, Hill bought his first Thoroughbred and was off to the races.

Mike Gatsas is from New Hampshire and founded Staffing Network with his brother Ted in 1988 and 11 years later sold the business to Vincam, which merged with ADP. In 2003, Mike Gatsas founded Trivantus, offering payroll services and benefits and human resource administration. Mike’s son Matt was the one who came up with Vekoma’s name, which the son of Candy Ride shares with a Dutch roller coaster manufacturer.