Built by horsemen. For horsemen.
Quarter Pole was not invented in a boardroom. It comes from three generations at the rail, and a simple conviction: the people who built this sport deserve infrastructure as serious as the horses they raise.
The Sengara family has raced thoroughbreds for three generations, earning more than $10 million in lifetime purses and a BloodHorse cover story along the way. That history is the product spec: every review step, every listing field, every notification setting exists because someone in this family has bought, sold, claimed, or syndicated a horse the old way — over text messages, handshakes, and trust extended further than it should have been.
Quarter Pole began at Emerald Downs, inside Claim To Fame Racing, the syndicate Kevin Sengara founded and operates. It starts where the need is deepest and the service is thinnest: the North American private market. The app is on the App Store in 148 countries — and this website is the same marketplace, live on the web.
Photos, video, pedigree, race record, asking terms, and the ownership interest on offer — whole horse, a fractional percentage, or both. Listing is free.
Before anything appears on the marketplace, the seller signs an attestation that they have the right to sell and a human reviews the listing. Approval means it passed review — not that Quarter Pole warrants the horse, the seller, or the transaction.
Private, in-app messaging with structured offers: amount, terms, and a pre-purchase exam period. No phone numbers or emails exposed, no cold calls.
Buyer and seller complete the transaction directly, off-platform, the way this industry always has. Quarter Pole never holds funds and never takes a commission.
Not every great horse needs a single owner. Sellers on Quarter Pole can offer a percentage of a horse at a price they set — a 25% interest in a stakes filly sits right beside whole-horse listings, with the terms stated plainly up front. Fractional offerings carry an extra consent step for sellers and clear labeling for buyers.
Quarter Pole is a discovery and messaging platform, not a broker-dealer, and does not process payments or transactions. This interest is offered by the seller and any deal is arranged off-platform between the parties. This is not investment advice.
Open groups and classifieds publish whatever is typed into them. On Quarter Pole, every listing passes a human review before it appears, and every seller signs an attestation. We do not vet the person or warrant the horse — so always do your own due diligence before you send anyone money. That is the honest version of trust, and it is the standard the racing world actually runs on.
Kevin Sengara
Third-generation thoroughbred-racing operator. Founder and Managing Partner of Claim To Fame Racing, the most successful racing fund in Washington State, operating primarily at Emerald Downs.
Featured in a BloodHorse cover story. Built the Quarter Pole product and infrastructure end to end, and leads product, financing, and launch execution.
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