He was born in Houston, Texas on September 25, 1933, to Walter C. Schultz and Esther Carl Alexander Schultz. He attended Klein High School in Houston, TX and was a member of the very first football team of Klein High School in 1947-1948. He later enlisted in the Air Force in 1950 serving in France and South Africa as a Radar Operator until Honorably Discharged in 1954. On September 5, 1953, he married the love of his life, Alamae Lee Wright Schultz. They were married for 68 years until her passing in July of 2021. They had 5 children: Vicky, Mike, Jimmy, Terry, and Sheri’.
During these years, he was a printer by trade for Gulf Printing to support his family. He always had a love for horses all his life, including rodeoing, calf roping and showing reining and cutting horses, but his ultimate love was when he moved to horseracing. He started out with quarter horse racing and built two horse stalls near his house in 1956 and took a couple of horses at a time to training after working regular hours as a printer. He would haul the horses to race meets all over Texas for several years. In 1967, he gave up his printing job and moved his family to a town near Evangeline Downs in Louisiana. Together, he and his wife began running a full time horse racing operation later to be named Six S Racing Stables. He raced quarter horses in Louisiana till 1974, when he merged his horse operation into thoroughbred racing. That year, he ran both quarter horses and thoroughbreds with huge success in both racing industries. He ultimately pursued thoroughbred racing only with substantial success as one of the top trainers in this area. He was one of the first trainers to bring horses to Louisiana Downs when it opened its doors in 1974 and had continued racing horses until his last days on earth. He was a man of big stature standing 6’4” or in terms of horse measurements, 19 hands. He was genuinely referred to by many in the racing world as “The Duke” due to his similarity in size and mannerisms of John Wayne. His competitive love of horseracing and all sports was apparent throughout his whole life. While discussing the horse racing business, he was quoted as saying “you had better get used to the downs in this game because there’s usually more of them than ups. The only real success in this game comes from not letting the downs keep you down.” Until his last breath on this earth, he abided by this philosophy.
He is preceded in death by his parents, wife Alamae Lee Wright Schultz, daughter Vicky Lynn Schultz, son James Steven Schultz and great-granddaughter, Aubree June.
He is survived by his son, Mike Schultz and wife Diane; son, Terry Schultz; daughter, Sheri’ Schultz Brown and husband Jim Brown; and his sister, Annette Hand and husband, Claude; grandchildren, Amber Lynn Schultz and husband Steve, Jonathon Schultz, Brandon Schultz, Collin Schultz, Whitney Alexis White, and Preslee Marie Brown; great grandchildren, Kaleb, Marcus, Shyloh, Brianna, and Chloe.
The family would like to thank his long time dear friend, Dr. Eddie Moore, for all his love and friendship given to Bob over many years, as well as Cassie Covey and Gentiva Hospice Care for their gracious and extraordinary care during the past year.
Funeral arrangements will be held at Hillcrest Funeral Home in Haughton, LA. Visitation is Monday, March 4, 2024, from 5-7 PM and services on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, at 10:00 AM. Following service, graveside will be held at West Lake Baptist Church Cemetery in Doyline, LA. Services will be officiated by Racetrack Chaplain Jimmy Sistrunk and Dr. Rick Wolfe.
