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, Phipps was a member of the
Jockey Club of Canada. He also served on the board of
Breeders' Cup Limited and the
National Thoroughbred Racing Association and, with his cousin Stuart S. Janney III, co-owned
Orb, the 2013
Kentucky Derby winner.
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's 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. •
Orb (b. 2010) – won 2013
Kentucky Derby. 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. In 2017, he was inducted into the
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame as a Pillar of the Turf. ==Personal life==