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unusual facts about Joan Whitney Payson



Helen Hay Whitney Foundation

The foundation was established in New York in 1943 by Joan Whitney Payson in cooperation with the estate planning of her mother, Helen Hay Whitney (1875-1944).

Manhasset Stable

The Manhasset Stable was the nom de course for an American Thoroughbred horse racing stable established in the early 1930s by Joan Whitney Payson, founder of the New York Mets baseball team and a member of the prominent New York City Whitney family who have been major figures in the sport for more than one hundred years.

William J. Hirsch

Although best remembered for his affiliation with King Ranch, in California he trained horses for several other prominent owners from the East Coast such as Harry Isaacs, Alfred G. Vanderbilt II, Joan and Jock Whitney's Greentree Stable as well as Edward Lasker and his wife, the actress Jane Greer.


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