Obituaries Ogden Mills Phipps, Patriarch of Thoroughbred Racing Dynasty, Dies
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C6 Friday, April 8, 2016, Bangor Daily News obituaries Ogden Mills Phipps, patriarch of thoroughbred racing dynasty, dies BY MARGARET COLLINS AND STEPHEN MILLER BLOOMBERG Ogden Mills Phipps, the patriarch of a thoroughbred- breeding dynasty and scion of the Carnegie Steel em- pire, has died. He was 75. He died Wednesday at CONTRIBUTED PHOTO New York Presbyterian Hos- Clayton Old Elk (from left), Dora Old Elk and Anna Old Elk pital in New York City, the of the Crow Tribe in Montana attended a celebration in Jockey Club, a group that 2005. oversees the breeding indus- try, said in a statement. No cause was given. American Indian Phipps, or “Dinny” as his friends called him, had run Bessemer Trust Co., a New York-based wealth manage- who was his tribe’s ment firm with more than $100 billion in assets, for two decades and remained a board member until last last war chief dies year. But he is perhaps better CHARLES BERTRAM | LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER | TNS known as the head of the Orb, with Joel Rosario up, captures the 139th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill BY EMILY LANGER themselves with Custer, a racing stable that won a Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2013. THE WASHINGTON POST U.S. cavalry commander. Kentucky Derby in 2013, The National Park Ser- came within a coin-toss of character,” said Dixon the successful firm that it of fame jockey who rode for Joe Medicine Crow, an vice described Medicine owning the legendary Secre- Boardman, founder of Opti- is,” said Stuart S. Janney III, Phipps and is now a racing American Indian who wore Crow, who was 11 when his tariat some five decades ago ma Fund Management and his cousin and Bessemer’s analyst for NBC. war paint under an Army grandfather Whiteman and raced hundreds of top Phipps’s longtime friend. current chairman. Ogden Mills Phipps was uniform during World War Runs Him died, as “the last thoroughbreds across the “Very beloved everywhere The family’s horse-racing born Sept. 18, 1940, in New II, conducting battlefield he- living person with a direct country under its famed he went, whether it was on operation has never been York, according to Marquis roics that made him his oral history from a partici- black and cherry-red silks. the race track, or business flashy either, eschewing the Who’s Who. His parents tribe’s last war chief, and pant of the Battle of Little The Phipps family has at Bessemer, or on the golf kind of high-profile purchas- were Ogden Phipps and the who distinguished himself Bighorn in 1876,” where been royalty in New York course, or while fishing, es of multimillion-dollar former Lillian Stokes Bost- as a guardian of his people’s Custer was killed and his horse-racing since the 1920s, which was one of his great young racehorses that others wick. history, died April 3 at a forces overwhelmingly de- dating back to the years passions.” have made in a bid to capture He attended Deerfield hospice center in Billings, feated. after Phipps’s great-grandfa- Bessemer Trust, while the Kentucky Derby. Phipps Academy in Deerfield, Mas- Montana. He was 102. Years later, Medicine ther, Henry Phipps, sold his not as well-known as some would get a Derby trophy, sachusetts, and Yale Univer- A half-sister, Louella Crow would observe that the stake in the steel power- of Wall Street’s flashier nonetheless, when Orb, a sity, in New Haven, Con- Whiteman Runs Him John- Indians had “won the battle house that he had co-found- firms, has quietly been a product of the family’s breed- necticut, where he received son, confirmed his death and lost a way of life.” ed with his friend Andrew major player in the wealth- ing operation, splashed home a bachelor of arts degree in and said she did not know As a tribal leader, Medi- Carnegie. Some of the pro- management industry for to victory in 2013. 1963. the cause. cine Crow advocated on be- ceeds from the sale went years. As of 2015, the firm Decades earlier, the In addition to golf and In 2009, President Barack half of American Indians for into the founding of Besse- ranked fourth by assets Phippses famously missed fishing, he was a court ten- Obama presented Medicine educational opportunities mer Trust; some went into under advisement among out on the chance to own nis player and is slated to be Crow with the Presidential greater than those initially horse-racing. Ogden Mills firms worldwide that cater Secretariat when a coin toss inducted into the Interna- Medal of Freedom, the na- offered to him. He attended Phipps, who took over the to wealthy families, behind conducted with an associate tional Court Tennis Hall of tion’s highest civilian schools with mixed student racing stable from his fa- the private banks of HSBC in the breeding industry Fame this summer, as his honor. The award recog- populations and recalled a ther, Ogden Phipps, was Holdings, Citigroup, and earned them a non-descript father was in 2001. nized him as “a warrior and white girl tormenting him chairman of New York- Northern Trust Corp., ac- filly instead of the horse that Phipps is survived by his living legend” whose mili- by jabbing him with a safety based Jockey Club and years cording to data compiled by would go on to dominate the wife of 46 years, the former tary service, educational pin. The Indian children, he earlier had also sat atop the Bloomberg. 1973 Triple Crown. Andrea Broadfoot, and chil- achievement and dedication said, belittled each other for New York Racing Associa- “Dinny’s strong leader- “He was really all about dren Kayce, Kelley, Lilly, to cultural preservation “trying to be a white man” tion’s Board of Trustees. ship and unwavering integ- the good of the sport,” said Daisy, Samantha and Ogden, made him a “symbol of by speaking English. “He was a larger than life rity helped make Bessemer Jerry Bailey, a retired hall according to the statement. strength and survival.” At age 10, he could not Medicine Crow once re- read. But he persevered in marked that he had divided his effort to gain an educa- his life between “two tion. He would later say, ac- Winston Moseley, convicted killer worlds.” One was that of the cording to Viola, that “with Crow Nation, the small an education, you are a Northern Plains tribe to white man’s equal; without which he belonged, located an education, you are his in Kitty Genovese case, dies at 81 primarily in Montana. The prisoner.” other was the world beyond Medicine Crow received a the reservation, where he bachelor’s degree in sociolo- was known as an ambassa- gy and psychology from Lin- BY SARAH KAPLAN television sets — that’s what that there was no evidence for only called the police some- dor for American Indians. field College in McMin- THE WASHINGTON POST he was doing when he was ar- the report of 38 witnesses — time later, after retreating to He became the first mem- nville, Oregon, in 1938 and a rested five days after Geno- that number was thought to another neighbor’s apart- ber of his tribe to graduate master’s degree in anthro- “For more than half an vese’s death. Under question- be a loose estimate of the num- ment. from college and receive a pology from the University hour 38 respectable, law-abid- ing, he confessed to the mur- ber of people interviewed by The police, too, have been master’s degree, then joined of Southern California in ing citizens in Queens der of Genovese and killing or police, tossed around during a implicated in these newer ac- the armed forces and was 1939. watched a killer stalk and stab raping a number of other lunch between the police com- counts. Like some of Geno- sent to wartime Europe. An He was working toward a a woman in three separate at- women. A New York jury missioner and a New York vese’s neighbors, they may ocean away from his tribal doctorate when he decided tacks in Kew Gardens,” the swiftly found him guilty and Times editor only to be im- have taken the woman’s territory, he encountered to enlist in the Army. In New York Times reported on condemned him to the electric mortalized in print. Likewise, screams for a lover’s quarrel the opportunity to complete combat, he carried a feather March 27, 1964, two weeks chair; that sentence was later the American Psychologist that didn’t warrant their in- the traditional war deeds, or for protection. His decora- after a New York woman commuted to life in prison. article argues, there is no evi- tervention. In 1964, marital coups, required for the des- tions included the Bronze named Kitty Genovese was Four years later, during a dence that witnesses actually rape was not a crime in New ignation of war chief. Star Medal. brutally killed. short-lived escape during a observed the murder in its York, and domestic violence Among those deeds was After the war, he became According to the Times, lightly-guarded trip to the hos- entirety, or that they ignored cases — in the rare instance the capture of an enemy — a land appraiser with the none of those 38 people both- pital, Moseley committed an- it. where they were prosecuted in his case, German — horse. Bureau of Indian Affairs, ered to call the police during other rape and held two hos- “Kitty Genovese was not — were considered in family, Medicine Crow was credited donning a jacket and tie dur- the assault, even as Genovese tages at gunpoint.