Michael E. Pegram

Who is Michael E. Pegram?

Michael E. Pegram is the co-owner of the 2010 Preakness Stakes winner Lookin at Lucky and owner of the 1998 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Real Quiet. He grew up going to the races at Ellis Park Racecourse and Churchill Downs and dreamed of someday owning a Kentucky Derby winner. He also won the 1998 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies with Silverbulletday and after she was voted that year's Eclipse Award for Outstanding 2-Year-Old Filly, came back in 1999 to win the Kentucky Oaks.

Among his other horses, Pegram owned Captain Steve, High Stakes Player, Queen of Money, Miss Gibson County, Wheeler Oil, Argolid, Favored One, Arches of Gold, Pussycat Doll, and The Texas Tunnel.

Pegram became successful as an owner of a number of McDonald's restaurant franchises in the state of Washington, a business that his father, Jim, had been involved with. Pegram has since moved his restaurant empire to Phoenix, where he lives part-time. Pegram also lives in Del Mar, California. He has three children: Amie and Tim Pegram and Tiffany Peach; and three brothers: Jim, Demont, and Gil.