Thoroughbred Racing
In 1988 she married Gulfstream Aerospace founder, Allen E. Paulson. An astute businessman, Paulson introduced her to Thoroughbred horse racing, a sport in which the couple achieved enormous success. While her husband owned several superstar horses such as U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Cigar, Madeleine Paulson owned show jumping horses plus Thoroughbreds competing in flat racing. She notably won the 1992 Breeders' Cup Turf with Fraise, the 1997 Prix Foy with Yokohama at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris, France, and the 2005 Santa Anita Handicap with Rock Hard Ten. A friend of weight-loss guru Jenny Craig, the two owned Rock and Roll who won the 1998 Pennsylvania Derby and ran in the Kentucky Derby. Madeleine Paulson also raced Dominique's Joy, named for her daughter.
In his 2003 book, Legacies of the Turf noted race historian Edward L. Bowen wrote that according to Paulson family banter, Madeleine Paulson traded Cigar to husband Allen for the filly, Eliza, the 1992 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies winner and that year's Eclipse Award winner as American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly. In a 1996 interview with the New York Times, Madeleine Paulson recounted the story.
Widowed in 2000, a battle over the estate of Allen E. Paulson lasted until 2007. Madeleine Paulson remarried in 2005 to Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens. While she maintains her home at the Del Mar Country Club in California, she and Pickens live in the Preston Hollow neighborhood of north Dallas and own a ranch along the Canadian River in the Texas Panhandle where she keeps her riding horses.
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