• 2025 - Ed Bowen (
posthumously) • 2023 -
Stuart Janney • 2021 -
Earle I. Mack • 2018 - Joe Harper • 2016 -
Andrew Beyer /
Steven Crist • 2015 -
Leonard Lavin • 2014 -
Tom Durkin • 2013 -
D. Wayne Lukas • 2012 - Nick Nicholson • 2011 -
W. Cothran "Cot" Campbell • 2010 -
Claiborne Farm /
Marylou Whitney • 2009 -
William S. Farish III,
Lane's End Farm • 2008 -
Alice Headley Chandler of Mill Ridge Farm • 2006 -
John A. Nerud • 2005 -
Penny Chenery • 2004 -
The Cella Family • 2003 -
Richard L. Duchossois • 2002 -
Ogden Phipps / Howard Battle • 2001 -
Harry T. Mangurian Jr. / Pete Pederson • 2000 -
Jim McKay • 1998 -
D. G. Van Clief Jr. • 1997 -
Bob and Beverly Lewis • 1996 -
Allen E. Paulson • 1995 -
James E. "Ted" Bassett III • 1994 -
Alfred G. Vanderbilt II • 1993 -
Paul Mellon • 1992 -
Joe Hirsch /
Robert P. Strub • 1991 -
Fred W. Hooper • 1990 -
Warner L. Jones Jr. • 1989 - Michael Sandler • 1988 - John Forsythe • 1987 -
James B. Faulconer • 1986 - Herman Cohen • 1985 - Keene Daingerfield • 1984 -
John R. Gaines • 1981 -
Bill Shoemaker • 1980 - John D. Shapiro • 1979 -
Frank E. Kilroe • 1978 -
Ogden Mills Phipps • 1977 -
Steve Cauthen • 1976 -
Jack J. Dreyfus ==References==