A sunlight portrait of the race horse Easy Goer

#EasyGoer

Sunlight Portrait🐴

The Wood Memorial celebrates 100 years of greatness | Aqueduct Named to honor Eugene D. Wood, the New York State politician and founder and past president of the old Jamaica Race Course, the Wood Memorial was held there until that track closed in 1959 and it was ...

🏆 "The Wood [Memorial Stakes] is New York’s race. #EasyGoer was always New York’s horse," said Daisy Phipps Pulito, the granddaughter of the colt’s owner, Ogden Phipps, and head of the current day #PhippsStable.
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Photo: 26-year-old OGDEN PHIPPS with jockey Francis Horn after winning his first stakes race in 1935 with “Sunny Jim” Fitzsimmons-trained White Cockade after winning the Youthful Stakes at Jamaica Race Course in Queens, NY. It was just three years after having registered his black and cherry silks with The Jockey Club. The silks were same as those of his grandfather Ogden Mills who owned a stable in France and raced in partnership with Lord Derby.

🎂OGDEN PHIPPS was born on this day in 1908.
▪️Third generation owner-breeder
▪️Bred 116 stakes winners & 12 champs
▪️Won '89 #BelmontStakes with #EasyGoer
▪️Won 3 #BreedersCup races
▪️Jockey Club chair '64–'74
▪️Inducted Hall of Fame Pillar of the Turf
Bio: racingmuseum.org/hall-of-fame....