Bloodstock agents try hand in restaurant business

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00:00Charlie Brown's restaurant has been a Lexington staple for nearly 50 years, but this spring

00:06it's been taken over by a new ownership with ties to horse racing.

00:11So me and Chris brothers have been coming here for over a decade and became friends

00:16with the owner and the staff and always kind of joked that we'd like to own it one day.

00:22Old owner was named David Fuller, he owned it for 40 years.

00:27Dave reached out to us one day and said it was time to pass on the torch and we were

00:31pretty much honored, I mean very honored to be given that opportunity.

00:37I mean the history of it, being here for 50 years and it's a major part of the community.

00:44Every inch of this place just screams him and so we wanted to continue his legacy.

00:50He got a lot of big offers from a lot of outsiders to buy it, but he wanted it to stay relatively

00:56in house and that's where our other partner Chris Beeler is involved.

00:59He worked here for 13 years as a bartender, cook and manager and so he's been a huge asset

01:06to us as horse racing outsiders of the restaurant industry.

01:13So I'm basically a bloodstock agent.

01:15I own Climax Stallions, we got stallions in California, Florida, Maryland and West Virginia

01:22right now.

01:23I got Feld Family Racing, which is a partnership group.

01:27I'm a line cook here, as much as I can I love it.

01:31I own Xavier International Bloodstock, I've been doing that for a while and then started

01:36Stable Duel and was doing that for about 5-6 years.

01:41Right when this opportunity came around, it was actually perfect because I was wanting

01:45a little change of pace.

01:47The cooking part I'd probably eat too much of it.

01:49I got fired from my uncle's restaurant when I was a kid for eating the bread coming out

01:53of the oven.

01:54So, I'm better in the front.

01:57The beauty of it is having two of your best friends as partners as we back each other

02:01up with everything we can do and we have no problem getting dirty, we have no problem

02:05cooking, we have no problem cleaning tables, bussing, everything.

02:10This place is special because it's all ages can come.

02:15We got the richest people in Lexington come and we got students that can't rub two pennies

02:19together that come.

02:20So, it's a hodgepodge of society and everyone has a good time.

02:24The people in this community really respect the vibe and respect the atmosphere and so

02:29we don't plan on changing anything.

02:31If you're here for this long, it's not broke, don't fix it.

02:34But we're excited with Keeneland coming up and hoping we'll get a bunch of people before,

02:38during and after the races.

02:40It's a great place to watch horse racing.

02:43You'll always have someone at the bar that has a form out or their iPad out rooting on

02:48some horse of all ages.

02:51There's always horse racing on and we actually had a bunch of people here to watch the Dubai

02:55World Cup and hopefully maybe down the line we'll have a Royal Ascot party or two as well.

03:00So, we're going to definitely be cats forward and horse forward as well.

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