...state-wide scholarship competition for the U. S. Naval Academy and graduated from there in 1944 with a B.S. Degree. As a new Ensign, he joined the crew of the U.S.S. Missouri, serving as junior gunnery officer during the Asiatic campaign of World War...
...Phipps' trainer for 28 years, and has campaigned such champions as Easy Goer, Inside Information and the undefeated Personal Ensign."This has kind of shown that with Stuart Janney's relationship with breeding that it can be done in a different way...
...34-year career that includes 1989 Belmont Stakes winner Easy Goer and many female champions topped by undefeated Personal Ensign."He has filled out so much physically," McGaughey said. "I look at him and I can't believe what I'm seeing from last...
...doing this together," the 64-year-old Janney said.Phipps' late father, Ogden, owned Easy Goer and undefeated Personal Ensign. Janney's parents owned star filly Ruffian."This horse's bloodline goes back to our grandmother," Janney said...
...McGaughey has been alongside Phipps and Janney for nearly 30 years. The family's horses - including undefeated champion Personal Ensign - helped propel him to the Hall of Fame in 2004."I'm extremely proud to be able to work with people such as this," McGaughey...
...experienced outstanding success in his endeavors for the Phipps family, having trained horses of the caliber of Easy Goer, Personal Ensign and, for Janney, Haskell and Travers Stakes winner Coronado's Quest. However, the Kentucky Derby has eluded owners and...
...devastation," said Webster, now 95 and living in Aiken.Seventy years ago, on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, the young Navy ensign was on shore leave and had spent the night at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel.His thoughts that morning were strictly on spending...
...Cornelius Tacitus I never met Hermon Lee Ensign. I'd never heard of him before last...have liked him. In the late 1800s, Mr. Ensign was a successful newspaper executive who...Animals, an organization he founded, Mr. Ensign commissioned more than 100 granite fountains...
After three years of shooting, Cadet Ensign Mary Guest has hit the bull's-eye. Cadet Ensign Guest, a Silver Bluff High School senior and...announced. Everyone just started crying." Cadet Ensign Guest scored a 537 to place fifth in the sporter...
Two years ago, a 24-year-old U.S. Navy ensign from Maryland named Herb Lacy stunned his flight instructors...was so impressed with Lacy's preparation that the game the ensign picked up for about $50 is now part of the training regimen...
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