Our Team

Steve Zorn – Racing Manager

Steve Zorn

Steve Zorn is the founder of Castle Village Farm and manages all its racing partnerships. He is now known throughout the industry as an expert at buying young horses that will out-perform their purchase prices, and also at claiming horses that can then be raced at higher levels. He buys frugally, with an eye towards horses that will have long and successful careers. A number of Castle Village Farm horses – including Flippy Diane, Introspect, Angel Dancer, Raf and Ready, Seaside Salute, Fighting Speedy, Southern Missile and Diligent Gambler – have earned far more than they cost. Most of our horses are New York-breds, so they can compete in restricted races, which gives them a better chance of being in the money. Also, when New York-breds do compete against open-company horses, they qualify for lucrative New York bonuses.

Together with Castle Village Farm’s trainers, Steve is responsible for making the tough decisions about when and where to race our horses. He is often at the barns, and he consults with the trainers daily, sometimes – depending on what is going on – several times in a day.

Steve has been following racing since he was in high school. He is a tax and trusts-and-estates lawyer who has also been a technical adviser at the United Nations, and a law professor. More important, for our purposes, he has participated in a variety of racing partnerships, including the first-ever partnerships established via the internet.

Joe Wall – Director of Sales

Joe Wall

Joe Wall is the sales director for Castle Village Farm. Joe is a longtime racing enthusiast and avid handicapper and is in his second year as part of the Castle Village Farm team. Joe lives on Long Island, just a short ride from Belmont and a slightly longer ride from Aqueduct. He loves being a tour guide on the backstretch and introducing folks to the excitement of morning workouts.

Jean Zorn – Business Manager

Jean Zorn

Jean Zorn runs all the business aspects of Castle Village Farm, making sure the trainers, vets and others who care for our horses are paid, keeping up the partners’ accounts, sending out checks when we win, and otherwise keepingchaos at bay. Jean also handles issues relating to getting our partners their thoroughbred owners’ licenses, parking stickers and track credentials.

Jean is a retired law professor, former Wall Street lawyer and a not-so-retired legal anthropologist who has worked in, among other places, Papua New Guinea (where, alas, they have only one day of racing per year).