- John Magnier
John Magnier is Ireland's leading thoroughbred stud owner and has extensive business interests outside of the horsebreeding industry. He has been a senator in the Irish Parliament, Seanad Éireann. He is based at Coolmore Stud at Fethard in County Tipperary which is now regarded as the World's pre-eminent stallion station and nursery of thoroughbreds. - Coolmore Stud
Coolmore Stud, established in 1975, is the world's largest breeding operation of thoroughbred racehorses, based in Fethard, County Tipperary in the Republic of Ireland. It was originally a relatively small farm dedicated to general agriculture, but came into the Vigors family in 1945 when a training operation was established there. It was inherited by Tim Vigors, famous fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain and in the Far East. - Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is a highly successful English composer of musical theatre, and also the elder brother of Julian Lloyd Webber. Lloyd Webber has enjoyed great popular success, with several musicals that have run for more than a decade both on Broadway and in the West End. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. He has also gained a number of honours, … - Alex Ferguson
Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson CBE (born 31 December 1941 in Govan, Glasgow) is a Scottish football manager and former player, currently managing Manchester United F.C. He has won more trophies than any other manager in the history of English football and has been in charge of Manchester United for more than 1,000 matches. With 20 years under his belt, he is the second-longest serving manager in the history of Manchester United after Sir Matt Busby. - Eugene Melnyk
Melnyk, who founded Biovail almost 20 years ago and held numerous positions in the company before stepping down last year, said late on Friday that he bought about 4.7 million shares, or 2.9 percent, of the outstanding shares, at C$10.86 each for a total value of C$50.7 million. - Robert Sangster
Robert Edmund Sangster (May 23, 1936 - April 7, 2004) was a well-known English thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder. He was British flat racing Champion Owner five times and his horses won many major races, including two Epsom Derbys, four Irish Derbys, two French Derbys, three Prix de l'Arc de Triomphes and a Melbourne Cup - Aga Khan IV
Karīm al-Hussaynī, Āgā Khān IV KBE CC GCC -- (born December 13, 1936) is the current (49th) Imām of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims. He has been in this position, and held the title of Aga Khan, since July 11, 1957. The Ismailis are ethnically and culturally diverse and reside in over 25 countries around the world. A modern Muslim leader, the Aga Khan is responsible for the interpretation of the faith for his followers and as part of the office of the Imamate, … - Ogden Phipps
Ogden Phipps (November 26, 1908 - April 21, 2002) was an American stockbroker, Court tennis champion and Hall of Fame member, Thoroughbred horse racing executive and owner/breeder, and an art collector and philanthropist. Born in New York City, Phipps was the son of Henry Carnegie Phipps and Gladys Livingston Mills. - Elizabeth Arden
Elizabeth Arden (December 31, 1878 - October 18, 1966) was a Canadian businesswoman who built a cosmetics empire in the United States. Arden was born Florence Nightingale Graham in Woodbridge, Ontario, where she lived until she was twenty-four years old. Joining her elder brother in New York City, she briefly worked as a bookkeeper for the E.R. Squibb Pharmaceuticals Company. While working there, she spent hours in their lab, learning about skincare. - Frank Stronach
Frank Stronach, CM (born September 6, 1932 as Franz Strohsack) is an Austrian and Canadian businessman. He is the founder of Magna International, an international automotive parts company based in Aurora, Ontario, Canada, and Magna Entertainment Corp., which specializes in horse-racing entertainment. - J. P. McManus
John Patrick McManus is an Irish businessman and racehorse owner. Born in Limerick, he began his business career at his family’s construction plant hire firm, and then became an on-course bookmaker at Limerick’s greyhound track, before moving into horse ownership and racing. He has a stud farm in County Kildare. In 1982, he and his wife bought Martinstown Stud on over 400 acres in County Limerick from the McCalmonts. McManus is National Hunt racing's largest owner. - Michael Tabor
Michael Tabor (born October 28, 1941, in East London, United Kingdom) made his fortune as owner of a successful chain of English betting shops and owner of a number of race horses. He sold out of that business for about $50-million in 2003, by which time he had already won the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes representing two-thirds of the American Triple Crown with Eclipse Award winner Thunder Gulch. English-born Tabor, who is currently a resident of Monaco, … - Payne Whitney
William Payne Whitney (March 20, 1876 - May 25, 1927) was a wealthy American businessman and member of the influential Whitney family. The son of William C. Whitney and Flora Payne, and younger brother to Harry, Payne Whitney attended Groton School and then Yale University. There, he was a member of Skull & Bones, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and captained the Yale rowing team. In later years, he helped finance the team, including donating funds to build a dormitory for the crew. - Paul Mellon
Paul Mellon KBE (11 June 1907 - 1 February 1999) was an American philanthropist and Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder who is one of the only four people ever designated "Exemplars of Racing" by the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. He was co-heir to one of America's greatest business fortunes, created by his grandfather Thomas Mellon, his father Andrew W. Mellon, and his father's brother Richard B. Mellon. - Harry Payne Whitney
Harry Payne Whitney (April 29 1872 - October 26 1930) was an American businessman, thoroughbred horsebreeder, and member of the prominent Whitney family. Born in New York City, he was the eldest son of the very wealthy businessman and United States Secretary of the Navy, William C. Whitney and brother to William Payne Whitney. Harry Payne Whitney was sent to study at Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts then attended Yale University, graduating with a law degree in 1894. - Claiborne Farm
Claiborne Farm is located just outside Paris, Kentucky, USA, and is one of the most famous thoroughbred horse farms in the United states. The farm was founded by Arthur B. Hancock, owner of Ellersbie Farm in Albemarle County Virginia and has been run by his family since its founding in c. 1911: * Arthur B. Hancock (1875-1957) * Arthur B. "Bull " Hancock, Jr. (1910-1972) * Seth W. Hancock (b. 1949) Arthur B. Hancock III (b. 1943) owns Stone Farm, … - Prince Aly Khan
Prince Ali Solomone Khan, known as Aly Khan, was a vice president of the United Nations General Assembly representing Pakistan, for which he served as U.N. ambassador (1958-1960). Best known, however, as an international playboy and a racehorse owner and jockey, he was a son of Aga Khan III, the head of the Ismaili Muslims, and the father of Aga Khan IV. His first name was typically spelled "Aly" in the popular press. - August Belmont
August Belmont, Sr. (December 8 1813 - November 24 1890), was born in Alzey, Prussia to a Jewish family. He immigrated to New York City in 1837 after becoming the American representative of the Rothschild family's banking house in Frankfurt. On receiving his American citizenship, he married Caroline Slidell Perry, daughter of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry - William Collins Whitney
William Collins Whitney (July 5, 1841 - February 2, 1904) was an American political leader and financier and founder of the prominent Whitney family. A conservative reformer, he was considered a Bourbon Democrat. William Whitney was born at Conway, Massachusetts of Puritan stock. His father was General James S.Whitney and his mother Laurinda Collins. William had a well known older brother, industrialist, Henry Melville Whitney (1839-1923), … - Allen E. Paulson
Allen Eugene Paulson (April 22, 1922 - July 19, 2000) was an American businessman, philanthropist, thoroughbred racehorse breeder and owner, and a self-made multi-millionaire. - John Bowes
John Bowes (1811-1885) was an English art collector and thoroughbred racehorse owner who founded the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, Teesdale. Born at Streatlam Castle into the wealthy coal mining descendants of George Bowes, he was the child of John Lyon-Bowes, 10th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1769-1820) and Mary Milner. Because his parents were unmarried at the time of his birth, he did not inherit the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne title. - James Audain
James Audain (born 1903 in Bournemouth, England) was a soldier, author, and racehorse breeder/owner. Educated at Wellington College, Berkshire and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he became a cavalry officer. Audain eventually moved to Canada where he lived in Victoria, British Columbia on Vancouver Island for much of his life. A writer, he served as president of the Craigdarroch Castle Society and the Victoria and Islands branch of the Canadian Authors Association. - Federico Tesio
Federico Tesio (January 17, 1869 - May 22, 1954) was an Italian statesman and one of the most important breeders of Thoroughbreds in the history of horse racing. Born in Turin, Federico Tesio obtained a degree in science and architecture. He served in the Italian Army during World War I and in 1939 was appointed to the Italian Senate. In 1898 he and his wife Lydia Tesio established the Dormello Stud in Dormelletto, … - William Stamps Farish III
Mr. Farish is former President of W.S. Farish and Company, an investment firm in Houston. He has been owner of Lane's End Farm, a 2,000-acre thoroughbred breeding facility in Versailles, Kentucky, since 1980. He is also former Chairman of Churchill Downs Incorporated, home of the Kentucky Derby. Mr. Farish, who attended the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, began his career as a stockbroker at Underwood, Neuhaus and Company in Houston. - George Steinbrenner
George Michael Steinbrenner III (born July 4, 1930 in Rocky River, Ohio), often known as "The Boss", is an American businessman and the principal owner of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees. His outspokenness and role in driving up player salaries have made him one of the sport's more controversial figures, … - Aga Khan III
Sultan Mahommed Shah, Aga Khan III GCSI GCMG GCIE GCVO PC (Persian: آغا خان الثالث(November 2, 1877 - July 11, 1957) was the 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims. He was one of the founders and the first president of the All-India Muslim League, and served as President of the League of Nations from 1937-38. - Princess Zahra Aga Khan
Princess Zahra Aga Khan (born September 18, 1970 in Geneva, Switzerland) is the eldest child of His Highness the Aga Khan. She attended Institut Le Rosey and Harvard University, from where she graduated in 1994 with a degree in Third World Development Studies. She married Mark Boyden, an Anglican, in a civil ceremony on June 21, 1997. The couple have a daughter, Sara, and a son, Ilyan. After her graduation, from Harvard University with a BA (Honours) in 1994, … - Windfields Farm
Windfields Farm is a 6 square kilometre (1,500 acre) thoroughbred horse breeding farm in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1937, the business originated with a property near the city of Toronto known as Parkwood Stable when it was owned by Colonel Sam McLaughlin of McLaughlin Automobile fame. It was purchased by businessman E. P. Taylor and became known as The National Stud of Canada until he renamed it Windfields Farm in honor of his first great champion. - E. P. Taylor
Edward Plunket Taylor was a Canadian business tycoon and famous breeder of thoroughbred race horses. - Ashford Stud
Ashford Stud in Versailles, Kentucky is the American arm of the international commercial Thoroughbred horse breeding operation Coolmore Stud of County Tipperary in the Republic of Ireland. As of December 2006, seventeen stallions stand at Ashford Stud. - Louis Wolfson
Louis Elwood Wolfson (born January 28 1912 in St. Louis, Missouri) was a Wall Street financier and a major thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder. Wolfson built one of the first conglomerates, before being convicted of securities fraud. His legal troubles led to the resignation of Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas. He grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, where he was a top athlete. As a youngster, he boxed professionally under the name "Kid Wolf", … - Fair Stable
Fair Stable was an American Thoroughbred horse racing stable owned by heiress Virginia Graham Fair that operated during the 1920s and the first half of the 1930s. Ms. Fair was the daughter of the wealthy mining magnate James Graham Fair. - Enrique Sarasola
Enrique Sarasola (August 24, 1937 - November 2, 2002) was a Spanish industrialist, a major figure in his country's transition to democracy, and an owner and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses. A native of San Sebastian, Spain, at age twenty, Sarasola emigrated to Colombia as an auditor with Price Waterhouse. He married Cecilia Marulanda, from a wealthy family, and eventually went into business for himself. - Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 - October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death in 1977. One of the first multi-media stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses. - Jenny Craig
Jenny Craig (born Genevieve Guidroz in 1932 in Berwick, Louisiana) is an American weight loss guru who founded Jenny Craig, Inc. Raised in New Orleans, Genevieve Guidroz married Australian Sidney H. Craig. Although neither had formal training in nutrition or exercise, Mrs Craig developed a weight loss regimen that led to creating a weight-loss company in the mid-1980s with her husband. - Lord George Bentinck
The Lord (William) George Frederick Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck (27 February 1802 - 21 September 1848), better known as simply Lord George Bentinck, was an English Conservative politician and racehorse owner, best known (with Benjamin Disraeli) for his role in unseating Sir Robert Peel over the Corn Laws. Bentinck was a younger son of the 4th Duke of Portland, and elected a Member of Parliament (MP) for King's Lynn in 1828, which constituency he represented, … - John White
John White (June 8 1811 - May 3 1897) was an Ontario lumber merchant and political figure. He represented Halton in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal member from 1867 to 1874. Born in Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1811, White came to Canada with his family in 1823 and was educated in Toronto. He served on the council for the Gore District and then on the council for Halton County. - John Gully
John Gully (21 August 1783 - 9 March 1863), English sportsman and politician, was born at Wick, near Bath, the son of an innkeeper. He came into prominence as a boxer, and in 1805 he was matched against Henry Pearce, "the Game Chicken," before the duke of Clarence (afterwards William IV) and numerous other spectators, and after fighting sixty-four rounds, which occupied an hour and seventeen minutes, was beaten. In 1807 he twice fought Bob Gregson, the Lancashire giant, … - Marcel Boussac
Marcel Boussac was a French entrepreneur best known for his ownership of the Maison Dior and one of the most successful thoroughbred race horse breeding farms in European history. Born in Châteauroux, Indre, France, Boussac made a fortune in textile manufacturing. In 1919 he acquired the Château de Mivoisin, a 36 square kilometre property located 1½ hours south of Paris in Dammarie-sur-Loing, Loiret. - Dorothy Paget
Dorothy Wyndham Paget was a British racehorse owner. She was the daughter of Lord Queenborough and Pauline Payne Whitney of the USA. She was a cousin of Jock Whitney, owner of the dual Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Easter Hero and latterly American Ambassador in London. She was the granddaughter of William C. Whitney, a wealthy American businessperson and politician who was also a racehorse owner.
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