Meet the Staff

Kenny A. Sanchez
Kenny@TMSvideo.com
TMS Founder and CEO

My name is Kenny Sanchez and I am the President of Thoroughbred Marketing Solutions. I formed this company because of my love for horses and videography. For the past 22 years I have been racing, training, and exercising horses while pursuing my business career and studying the various aspects of multimedia and marketing.

In 1982, I began my employment in the equine industry as a “hotwalker” at Santa Anita Park. After one year of experience working with horses in this manner I discovered that I had a strong desire to learn to ride. I was introduced to a well-known horse trainer and soon after began my own training in breaking and training young horses. At the completion of my training I traveled to Washington for additional training and obtained my jockey license in 1986. I pursued my riding career in the state of Washington for four years, intermittently traveling to Northern California to race at tracks such as Bay Meadows, Golden Gate Fields, Santa Rosa, Vallejo, Pleasanton, Stockton and Fresno.

In 1990, I was offered the opportunity to work at the racetrack at Macao in the Asian Pacific Islands. During my six-month stay in this country I gained vast experience in dealing with people from all different types of backgrounds and cultures. While at the Macau Jockey Club, I also had the opportunity to visit Hong Kong and China. It was a very educational experience for me.

Upon my return to the U.S., I returned to school and after some time off I resumed my jockey career at Santa Anita Park. I also raced horses at Del Mar, Hollywood Park and Los Alamitos racetracks and continued until 1998 when I began employment at The Thoroughbred Corporation in Bradbury, California. During my time there I rode thousands of horses, including such notable runners as Horse of the Year Point Given, leading money-earner Spain, champion 2-year-old Anees, and many others.

While on vacation in the Hawaiian Islands in 2000, I enjoyed filming all the beautiful scenery and points of interests and became motivated to learn more. Upon my return to Los Angeles, I immediately enrolled in a class at East Los Angeles City College in order to learn more. In doing so, I realized it could become a fun and satisfying career change for me. Subsequently, I invested in computers and other editing equipment and began to film special events, first as a hobby, and then I began to offer my services to friends and family for a fee.

Still employed at the Thoroughbred Corporation, I was able to film some very beautiful and expensive horses. I initially began developing video presentations for the owners of the horses, enabling better communication between trainers and owners. By capturing the frame-by-frame action of a horse’s daily exercise workout, I was able to show the owner how a horse was developing without him or her actually having to be present during the training. Slowly but surely I began to see the need of video technology in the equine industry.

Before long I became serious about what had begun as a hobby. I invested in additional equipment and education and began actively developing my videography business while continuing my education. Before long my company grew and on July 5th, 2001, I incorporated my company

In January, 2003 I resigned from The Thoroughbred Corporation in order to pursue additional education and give the company my full attention and dedication.
During the past year I have been avidly marketing my business to the Thoroughbred industry. I invested in advertising services and materials for our grand opening, which was at the Del Mar Sale at Del Mar Racetrack in August, 2003. The company received a positive response from our questionnaire forms indicating the needs of our potential clients. In addition to filming horses and special events, I have also begun to film farms and real estate for marketing purposes.

In addition to videography services, I expanded the company to include photography, website design, streamline video presentations, projector services and DVD/CD duplication. The company also provides services for photo restoration and photo montage.

In March 2004 I was chosen to be a participant for Mindless Entertainment’s “Extreme Dodgeball”, a new TV show. It was a two-day production which included a personal interview of me at Santa Anita Racetrack and a brief history of my accomplishments and goals. This was a great experience which allowed me to meet many interesting people in the television industry.

With determination, dedication and hard work, my goal is to reach the point where I will be able to expand my business to a national level, manufacture and market an equine-related clothing line, and sell advertisement space on my website.