Gladys Mills Phipps

Gladys Livingston Mills Phipps (1883-1970), was an United States socialite, sportsperson, and a Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder who began the Phipps family dynasty in American horse racing.

Born in New York, she was the daughter of Ruth Livingston and Darius Ogden Mills and the sister of Ogden Livingston Mills who served as the United States Secretary of the Treasury. In 1907 Gladys Mills married Henry Carnegie Phipps (1879-1953), son of the wealthy Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania businessman Henry Phipps.

Although a sportswoman who was an avid golfer and ice skater, she was first and foremost a lover of horses who brought the family into the sport of Thoroughbred racing in 1926 when she and her brother Ogden L. Mills established the highly successful Wheatley Stable. Her son Ogden (1908-2002) and daughter Barbara (1911-1987) both became involved in Thoroughbred horse racing.

Following her brother's death in 1937, Gladys Mills Phipps inherited her parent's mansion at Staatsburg, New York. In 1938, she gave the house and 192 acres to the State of New York. [http://www.hvnet.com/houses/mills/]

References

* [http://www.hvnet.com/houses/mills/ Mills Mansion at Staatsburg, New York]
* [http://www.barntowire.com/AP-BCstormflagflying.html Phipps family racing at Chicago Barn to Wire]
* [http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/bc/2005/race/detail.asp?WorkingEditionId=1&RaceId=7&xid=751018 Phipps family at Thoroughbred Times Company, Inc.]
* "Halcyon Days: An American Family Through Three Generations" by Peggie Phipps Boegner (daughter of John Shaffer Phipps), Richard Gachot (1987) Harry N. Abrams, Inc. ISBN 0-8109-1064-0
* Bowen, Edward L. "Legacies of the Turf" (Vol. 1) (2003) Eclipse Press ISBN 1-58150-102-1 (See also: [http://www.eclipsepress.com/current_titles/B11-1079.html] )