- Ogden Mills Phipps
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Ogden Mills Phipps Born September 18, 1940
New York City, New York,
United StatesResidence Palm Beach, Florida Education Yale University Occupation Financier, Racehorse owner/breeder & industry executive Political party Republican Board member of The Jockey Club, NYRA, Breeders' Cup Limited, NTRA Children Ogden Phipps II, Daisy, Lilly, Samantha Parents Ogden Phipps &
Lillian Stokes BostwickRelatives Siblings: Cynthia, Robert Lansing Honors Eclipse Award of Merit (1978) New York Turf Writers Award (1978) TOBA Industry Service Award (2002) Ogden Mills "Dinny" Phipps (born September 18, 1940 in New York City) is a retired American financier and prominent Thoroughbred racehorse industry executive and a Thoroughbred owner/breeder. The son of major Thoroughbred owner/breeder Ogden Phipps, his grandmother Gladys Mills Phipps owned the renowned Wheatley Stable, and great-grandfather Ogden Mills, involved with Thoroughbreds beginning near the end of the 19th century, owned racing stables in the United States and was a partner with Lord Derby in a racing stable in France.
Widely known by the nickname "Dinny," he was Chairman of the family's Bessemer Trust until retiring at 53 or 54 years old in 1994, and still serves as Vice Chairman of the Board.[1]
Horse racing industry executive
A member of the Board of Directors and a past Chairman of The Jockey Club and of the New York Racing Association, Dinny Phipps is a member of the Jockey Club of Canada [1] He also serves on the Board of Breeders' Cup Limited and the National Thoroughbred Racing Association.
Thoroughbred racing
Like their father and grandmother before them, Dinny Phipps and his sister Cynthia had a long working relationship with the Hancock family's Claiborne breeding farm near Paris, Kentucky. In 1995, Dinny Phipps' great filly Inside Information won the Molly Pitcher Handicap, following his sister Cynthia who won it in 1992 with Versailles Treaty, and his father Ogden who had also won it in 1988 with Personal Ensign.
Dinny Phipps and his father were two of the subjects in the 2003 book Legacies of the Turf: A Century of Great Thoroughbred Breeders by race historian Edward L. Bowen that chronicled the history of Thoroughbred racing's most influential breeders. In 1978 Dinny Phipps received the Eclipse Award of Merit, the horse racing industry's highest honor, plus he was voted the New York Turf Writers Award as "The Man Who Did the Most for Racing." In 2002, Phipps received the Industry Service Award from the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association.
Among the many successful horses raced by Dinny Phipps were:
- Rhythm (b. 1987) - 1989 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt, won 1989 Breeders' Cup Juvenile;
- Dispute (b. 1990) - a winner of four Grade 1 races including the Kentucky Oaks;
- Inside Information (b. 1991) - 1995 American Champion Older Female Horse, won 1995 Breeders' Cup Distaff, 2008 U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee;
- Storm Flag Flying (b. 2000) - voted the 2002 American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly, won 2002 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies;
- Pleasant Home (b. 2001) - won 2005 Breeders' Cup Distaff;
- Smuggler (b. 2002) - voted the 2005 American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly.
In partnership with William S. Farish III, Dinny Phipps bred Storm Song, the 1996 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies winner and American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly. In England, Dinny Phipps' horse, Posse, won the 1980 G1 Sussex Stakes and G2 St. James's Palace Stakes and went on to sire Group 1 winners.
References
Categories:- 1940 births
- Living people
- Yale University alumni
- American financiers
- American racehorse owners and breeders
- New York Racing Association
- Breeders' Cup
- People from New York City
- Phipps family
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