ROBERT EDWARDS, BOARD MEMBER

A constant stream of research, an obsessive work ethic, and a team of industry power players has proven a formula for success for Bob Edwards, who entered the sport in 2015 and a year later found himself in the winner’s circle at the Breeders’ Cup World Championships with New Money Honey.

Bob was born in New Jersey and grew up in Highland Mills, N.Y. His wife, Kristine, is from Saratoga Springs, N.Y., where she worked at the racetrack for a time. The two met while attending Plattsburgh State University in New York. Bob joined the Army Reserve to pay for school and eventually went on to Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., where he got a degree in business.

Two years after taking a job with a pharmaceutical company in Florida, Bob co-founded a company of his own, Boca Pharmacal. After attempting retirement, then launching another company in 2014, e5 Pharma (the “e” for Edwards and the 5 representing Bob, Kristine, and their three children), Edwards also carved out time to begin work on Old Everglades Distillery, which opened in Deerfield Beach, FL in 2021.

While in Saratoga for a family reunion in August 2015, one of Bob’s business partners invited him and his daughter Cassidy to join him on the backstretch to visit the barns of some of the horses he owned. The visit happened to coincide with the annual yearling sales at Fasig-Tipton, and it wasn’t long before the racing bug bit everyone in the family and the now very successful e5 Racing was established. The Edwards’ stable has grown to more than a dozen horses, including recent winner Cassidy’s Reward. Bob and Kristine reside in Boca Raton, FL.