George DeBenedicty

DeBenedicty was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary. At age 16 he won the Hungarian modern pentathlon championships. When he turned 17 he began competing all across Europe; in France, Austria, Germany and Poland, representing the Hungarian national team. He immigrated to New York City at the age of 18. At age 19, he joined The New York Athletic Club fencing team. In 1969, he competed and made the final in Martini & Rossi International Cup in NYC. During this time he had been accepted to New York University under a full fencing scholarship. In the 1971 NCAA Fencing Championships, he won both the individual épée and the team titles with NYU.

DeBenedicty began his real estate career in 1976 joining Weichert Realtors as a real estate agent in Morristown, New Jersey. In 1978 DeBenedicty became office manager of Weichert Realtors in their office in Middletown.

DeBenedicty moved to Ocala, Florida, in 1981. Shortly after arriving there, DeBenedicty started his own real estate company called Pegasus Realty & Associates, Inc., in 1982. He started getting further involved in the thoroughbred horse industry in 1985 when he first started breeding horses. He had many victories on the race track throughout the years. His greatest was winning the Crown Royal Stakes at Churchill Downs with his horse Broadway Beau,[5] in 1996.

DeBenedicty has been married to Karin Bell since 1990. They had a daughter named Victoria in October 1995.

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