William Haggin Perry was a prominent owner and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses.
Background
He was the son of Henry Pierrepont Perry, a Wall Street Stockbroker, and Edith Lounsbery, the daughter of Richard P. Lounsbery and Edith Hunter Haggin who in turn was the daughter of one of America"s most prominent horsemen, James Ben Ali Haggin.
Education
The family owned a summer estate in Newport, Rhode Island and young William Perry studied there at Saint George"s School before going on to Yale University.
Career
Although born in New York City, William Perry spent a good deal of his childhood at Rancho Delegate Paso, the huge Haggin family ranch in Sacramento County, California. According to Armfield, Miller & Ripley Fine Properties, Limited Liability Company, real estate agents who sold the property, The Chronicle of the Horse publication called Waterford Farm "one of the ten most important thoroughbred facilities in the United States during the late 1970s and early 80s."
His early success in racing came with the filly Alanesian who in turn produced Boldnesian and Princessnesian. In 1993, William Haggin Perry died at Waterford Farm at age eighty-five.
He was inducted posthumously in the Virginia Thoroughbred Association Hall of Fame in 1994.