From the windows of his childhood home in Ocala, FL, Carlos Manresa could see J.J. Pletcher’s training facility, and in the mornings, he would look out the back windows to see young Thoroughbreds training.

“It’s a very vivid memory that I shared with my dad, which is really special,” said Manresa, sitting outside the Sequel New York consignment on Saratoga’s Fasig-Tipton sales grounds last week. “He’d wake me up, we’d go downstairs, and he’d say, ‘Look at the horses. Look at the horses.’ But it was always from a distance.”

Now the director of operations for Sequel, Manresa grew up on a small Quarter Horse farm, but despite the proximity, he grew up thinking that the Thoroughbred world was inaccessible.

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