Leone J. Peters

Infobox Person
name = Leone J. Peters


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birth_date = September 16, 1911
birth_place = New York, U.S.
death_date = June 4, 1988
death_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
occupation = Real Estate Exective
Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder
spouse = Betty Martone
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Son: Paul Leone Peters
Daughter: Gail Peters Beitz

Leone J. Peters (September 16, 1911 - June 4, 1988) was an American businessman and an owner/breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses.

Peters was a prominent Manhattan real estate broker and consultant who joined the property management company Cushman & Wakefield in 1929. He oversaw an expansion of the business into a nationwide force and rose to become its Chief Executive Office and Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Thoroughbred horse racing

Leone Peters partnered with Arthur B. Hancock III, of the renowned Kentucky breeding operation, Claiborne Farm. At Hancock's Stone Farm in Paris, Kentucky they bred and raced Gato Del Sol, winner of the 1982 Kentucky Derby. Among other horses the two bred was multiple stakes race winner Tap Shoes and Risen Star, winner of the 1988 Preakness and Belmont Stakes who was voted theEclipse Award for Outstanding 3-Year-Old Male Horse.

Leone J. Peters died at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia in 1988 following open-heart surgery.

He was married to Betty Martone (1914-1998) with whom he had a son, Paul Leone Peters, and a daughter who also became involved in Thoroughbred racing, Gail Peters Beitz.

References

* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE7DC1F3DF934A35755C0A96E948260 Leone J. Peters obituary at The New York Times]