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Originally Posted by randallscott35
By the way, a little trivia, how is Anderson Cooper and horse racing connected?
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Andersen Cooper - son of Gloria Vanderbilt and Wyatt Cooper.
Gloria Vanderbilt was the only child of Reginald Vanderbilt and Gloria Morgan.
After her father died, Gloria's mother squandered her inheritance and Gloria's aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, became Gloria Vanderbilt's guardian and keeper of her "trust fund".
Gertrude Vanderbilt had married Harry Payne Whitney.
"Harry Payne Whitney was a major figure in thoroughbred horse racing. He owned a large stable and horse breeding farm where he developed the American polo pony by breeding American Quarter Horse stallions with his thoroughbred mares. He was thoroughbred racing's leading owner of the year in the United States on eight occasions and the breeder of almost two hundred stakes race winners. His Kentucky-bred horse Whisk Broom II raced in England then at age six came back to the U.S. where he won the New York Handicap Triple Crown, Whitney had nineteen horses who ran in the Kentucky Derby, winning it the first time in 1915 with Regret, the first filly ever to capture the race. Regret went on to earn Horse of the Year honors and was named to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame". Wikepedia