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DAP Racing was a horse racing partnership between Perry Martin from Yuba City, California, and Steve Coburn of Topaz Lake, Nevada,〔 along with their spouses, Denise Martin and Carolyn Coburn.〔 DAP stands for "Dumb Ass Partners"—a tongue-in-cheek response to a passerby who questioned their wisdom in purchasing the partnership's first racehorse, the mare Love the Chase, who became the dam of 2014 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner California Chrome, her first foal.〔 The partnership still jointly owns horses, but Coburn sold his minority share in California Chrome to Taylor Made Farm in July 2015.〔 The Martins and the Coburns had in common a fondness for California Chrome,〔 but otherwise very different personalities and backgrounds. As Carolyn Coburn explained, "We couldn't be more different. We met at the racetrack because of a horse. That's what's so great about this game. It brings people together."〔 The Martins seldom talk to the press,〔 but Melissa Hoppert of ''The New York Times'' described them as the "quiet thinkers," noting that Perry Martin planned the mating of Lucky Pulpit with Love the Chase, mapped out a "Road to the Derby" racing plan for the horse, and promoted use of a nasal strip for California Chrome's races. Hoppert characterized the more outgoing Coburns as the "public relations arm" of the partnership.〔 ==Background== The Martins are from Chicago. They met over a mutual interest in the novel ''Foundation'' by Isaac Asimov, and went to the harness races on their first date; Perry Martin had been going to horse races at Arlington Park since he was a teenager.〔 Today they own and operate Martin Testing Laboratories (MTL), a division of Materials Technology Laboratories, Inc.〔 that is located within McClellan Business Park at the former McClellan Air Force Base.〔 MTL tests items such as automobile airbags and medical equipment.〔 The company provides product assurance and reliability testing of new technologies and materials.〔〔 Perry Martin has an MBA,〔 a degree in applied physics from Michigan Technological University,〔 and an advanced degree in solid state physics from the University of Illinois-Chicago.〔 Denise Martin is MTL's senior chemist, managing the company's fatigue testing and thermal analytics.〔 They married in 1986 and celebrated their 28th anniversary on the weekend of the Preakness, thus missing seeing the race live.〔 They moved to California in 1987, where Perry Martin was employed as a metallurgist by the Air Force and Denise briefly job shadowed a racehorse trainer in the Sacramento area.〔 Perry Martin worked at the McClellan Air Force Base prior to its 2001 closure,〔 performing testing and analysis work, briefing both Congress and the Air Force Chief of Staff on his work with Air Force weapons systems.〔 He wrote the ''Electronic Failure Analysis Handbook'', published by McGraw-Hill in 1999.〔 Steve Coburn, characterized by the media as the more "loquacious" of the two men,〔〔 describes himself and his wife as "just everyday people".〔〔 He grew up in central California and was familiar with horses. He worked herding cattle at a feedlot,〔 participated in rodeos, and worked at some ranching jobs.〔 He now works as a press operator for a company that makes magnetic strips.〔 Carolyn Coburn retired in March 2014 from a career working in payroll in the health care industry.〔 Carolyn introduced Steve to horse racing, and when he was looking for a tax write-off, she encouraged him to buy into a racing syndicate instead of purchasing a small airplane.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「DAP Racing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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