Background
Her mother died of tuberculosis when she was six and she was raised by two stepmothers and a series of nannys.
Her mother died of tuberculosis when she was six and she was raised by two stepmothers and a series of nannys.
She and her husband were listed on the New York Social Register and attended Thoroughbred flat races at Belmont Park.
Fond of a variety of sports, Isabel Dodge Sloane played golf and tennis and enjoyed fly fishing and game bird hunting. Her half-sister, Frances Dodge, was also heavily involved in horse racing and breeding and owned the renowned Castleton Farm near Lexington, Kentucky. Although she hired top level farm managers, Ms Sloane learned the intricacies of the breeding business.
In a 1939 article in the New York World-Telegram, feature writer Elliott Arnold wrote that there wasn"t a man in the business who knew more about Thoroughbreds than Isabel Dodge Sloane.
In 1951, she became one of only three women to ever be the Guest of Honor at the annual testimonial dinner of the Thoroughbred Club of America. In 1954, she was elected Vice-President of the Virginia Thoroughbred Association.
Isabel Dodge Sloane died the following year at the age of sixty-six.