1. Ogden Phipps was born in New York City on November 26,1908, the son of Henry Carnegie Phipps and Gladys Livingston Mills.
19 Facts About Ogden Phipps
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Ogden Phipps was named for his mother's brother, Ogden L Mills.
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Ogden Phipps's grandfather Henry Phipps was a major philanthropist who had amassed a fortune as the second-largest shareholder in the Carnegie Steel Company.
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Ogden Phipps served as a chairman of The Jockey Club for twenty years and at the time of his death was the club's longest-reigning member.
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Ogden Phipps owned and bred Reviewer, who sired Ruffian for his sister, Barbara Phipps Janney.
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Ogden Phipps inherited the stallion Bold Ruler from his mother's estate, who was mated with the mare Somethingroyal in 1969.
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Ogden Phipps bred nine champions of his own, winning Eclipse Awards for both leading owner and leading breeder in 1988.
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Ogden Phipps never won the Kentucky Derby but came close twice, finishing second with Dapper Dan in 1965 and second again with Easy Goer in 1989, who went on to win the Belmont Stakes.
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Ogden Phipps won two British Classic Races, taking the St Leger Stakes with Boucher in 1972 and the 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket Racecourse with Quick As Lightning.
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Four Hall of Fame trainers conditioned Ogden Phipps' horses, beginning with the renowned Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, who trained for his mother's Wheatley Stable.
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In 2003, Ogden Phipps was voted the Eclipse Award of Merit and in 2019 the American Thoroughbred horse racing industry's highest honor as a Hall of Fame Pillar of the Turf.
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In 1969, Ogden Phipps Plaza opened as the first multi-level mall in Atlanta, aiming to become the South's leading luxury shopping destination.
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On June 14,1930, Ogden Phipps married Ruth Pruyn of Glen Cove, New York.
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Ogden Phipps remarried on November 4,1937, to divorcee Lillian Stokes Bostwick McKim, the sister of Hall of Fame steeplechase jockey George Herbert Bostwick.
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Ogden Phipps was the mother of three daughters from her first marriage to Robert McKim, and together, Ogden and Lillian had two more children:.
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Ogden Phipps was 93 when he died on April 21,2002, at Good Samaritan Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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Ogden Phipps had an art collection that included works by Claude Monet and John Singer Sargent.
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Ogden Phipps maintained a greenhouse collection of orchid varieties from around the world.
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An honorary governor of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Ogden Phipps continued the family's philanthropic work.