Dr. Marshall Gramm
Dr. Marshall Gramm is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Rhodes College. He has over a dozen academic publications related to the sport of horse racing in journals including the Southern Economic Journal, Applied Economics, The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, and The Journal of Gambling Business and Economics. An avid horseplayer, Marshall won the 2020 Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge (BCBC) and has qualified for the last nine years for the National Horseplayers Championship (NHC). Marshall has been an owner of racehorses since he claimed his first horse in 2008. He co-founded Ten Strike Racing in 2016 with Clay Sanders and Ten Strike Racing has over 475 wins at 30 different racetracks. Ten Strike Racing has won 33 stakes races and won the Owners Title at Parx Racing in 2016 and 2017. Marshall has also bred five stakes horses from his modest broodmare band. He is on the board of the Thoroughbred Idea Foundation (TIF), the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association (TOBA), and the Thoroughbred Charities of America (TCA). Marshall holds a B.A. from Rice University and Ph.D. in Economics from Texas A&M University.