Dorothy Wyndham Paget was a British racehorse owner and sponsor of motor racing.
17 Facts About Dorothy Paget
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Dorothy Paget was a cousin of Jock Whitney, owner of the dual Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Easter Hero and latterly American Ambassador in London, and granddaughter of William C Whitney, a wealthy American businessman, politician and racehorse owner.
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Dorothy Paget's mother was a member of the New York Whitney family, which was one of the most prominent thoroughbred horse racing and breeding families in America.
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Dorothy Paget too owned a stable of thoroughbreds as well as the Ballymacoll Stud breeding farm in County Meath, Ireland.
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Dorothy Paget's horses won a total of 1,532 races in both flat and hurdling.
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Dorothy Paget was the British flat racing Champion Owner in 1943, the year her horse Straight Deal won The Derby.
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Dorothy Paget was considered a notoriously difficult owner, often phoning her trainer in the middle of the night.
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Dorothy Paget threw a screaming fit at Fulke Walwyn after the trainer could "only" deliver five winners of a six race card.
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Dorothy Paget had twenty-one runners in the Grand National.
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Dorothy Paget's first was Solanum in 1931, who fell at Becher's Brook on the second circuit.
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Dorothy Paget's racing colours were blue, yellow hoop on body and sleeves, yellow cap with blue hoop.
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Dorothy Paget is notably responsible for financing an old age home for Russian emigres at Chateau de la Cossonnerie as well as the Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois Russian Cemetery in France.
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Dorothy Paget took profound interest in the fate of the Russian refugees after having attended a finishing school in Paris founded by Elena Orlov and sister Princess Vera Meshchersky.
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Dorothy Paget saw to it that the residents of the old-age home "were supplied with turkey and plum pudding at Christmas time".
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Dorothy Paget lived an eccentric lifestyle at home, spending most of the day in bed and rising at night.
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Dorothy Paget assigned her staff different colours, with the exception of green, which she despised, and would use the colours in place of their names when speaking to them or of them.
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Dorothy Paget died of heart failure on 9 February 1960, aged fifty-four.