Alice Headley Chandler
American horsebreeder and racing stable owner
Alice Headley Chandler (January 15, 1926 — April 6, 2021) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse breeder and racing stable owner.
Chandler is known for establishing Mill Ridge Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. In 2020, the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame inducted Chandler under the Pillars of the Turf category for “extraordinary contributions to Thoroughbred racing in a leadership or pioneering capacity at the highest national level."
Chandler's motto was, “Take care of the horse, and it will take care of you.”
Early life
Alice Molloy Headley was born January 15, 1926, in Lexington, Kentucky, to Hal Price Headley and Genevieve Morgan Molloy. Chandler's father owned Beaumont Farm, 4,000 acres of land in the western part of Fayette County, and was “one of the prime, and perhaps most important, of the original organizers of Keeneland,” an equine racing and sales facility in Lexington.
Chandler attended Warrenton Country Day in Virginia, the Ethel Walker School, and the University Training School in Lexington. She married Howard Current Judy in 1944 and had two children, Patricia and Michael. Chandler remarried in 1950 to Reynolds Wait Bell and moved to Texas, where Bell worked in the oil industry. Chandler had two sons while married to Bell, Headley and Reynolds.
Inspired by her father's legacy, Chandler returned to Lexington in 1959 to engage in horse breeding and sales.
In 1972, she married equine veterinarian Dr.
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