Shea O'Halloran observed it ... Sean Davis Jeffries felt it ... and ever-loyal life partner Darci McDougal understood it. Beauregard Wellington, having spent half the decade turning Bourbonesque International into a marketing juggernaut, was becoming increasingly restless with what he, himself, described as "an imbalance between what I'm supposed to do and what I was meant to do."
Put simply, the American ex-pat from Lexington, Kentucky, wanted back into the thoroughbred racing business in the worst way. Oh sure, he had his CanUSire breeding operation with long-time rival and current joint venture partner TJ Cutter - an idea born of his own creative initiative. But he longed for the time, not too far in the past, when he'd called his own shots in bringing Thoroughbred Bs Farm and Triple-B Racing Stables to prominence on the biggest of stages.
For five years, Beau Wellington adhered to the arrangement under which his mother, Abigail, had essentially reimagined the long involvement of the Wellington family in the Commonwealth's bourbon and thoroughbred industries thru their social standing, economic prowess and political activism.
While he had little interest in returning to Stateside life, Beau was fully prepared to re-engage his equine-industry peers as the "invading scourge from County Kilkenny." What Beau needed, however, was not simply "clearance" from Abby, but a buy-in and new mother-and-son business relationship.
After multiple conversations with Beau, Darci and Sean, Shea managed to persuade Abigail to give her son a hearing.
