Thoroughbred Racing Legacy
A member of The Jockey Club, Ogden Mills raced horses in the United States and maintained a racing stable in France in partnership with Lord Derby. Among their successes in that country, they won the 1928 Grand Prix de Paris with the colt Cri de Guerre, bred by Evremond de Saint-Alary. On his death in 1929, Ogden Mills left to his daughter Beatrice, a resident of London, England, married to Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard, his French racing stable and a home at 73 Rue de Varenne in Paris. That year, Beatrice led all French owners in purses earned.
Daughter Gladys and son Ogden established Wheatley Stable in 1926; it would become one of the preeminent racing and breeding operations in American racing history. Gladys Mills married Henry Carnegie Phipps. Their daughter, Barbara Phipps Janney, and son, Ogden Phipps, plus grandson Ogden Mills Phipps and granddaughter Cynthia Phipps, would be major figures in the sport.
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