Champion Three-Year-Old Filly for 2013, was voted American Champion Older Dirt Female Horse for 2015, and won the 2016 Breeders' Cup Distaff over champion filly Songbird and was voted American Champion Older Dirt Female Horse for 2016. Personal life Hughes married Marjorie McKechnie in 1958. Their son B. Wayne Hughes Jr. was born in 1959, and daughter Tamara in 1961. The couple divorced in 1975. He married Kathleen Becker in 1983. They had one son, Parker, born in 1990. Parker died in 1998 at eight years old from childhood leukemia. Hughes married his third wife, Patricia Whitcraft, in 2017. Hughes died on August 18, 2021, at his home on Spendthrift Farm near Lexington, Kentucky, a month before his 88th birthday. The cause of death was not revealed. References External links Spendthrift Farm official website 1933 births 2021 deaths People from Kiowa County, Oklahoma American chief executives American racehorse owners and breeders Philanthropists from Oklahoma University of Southern California alumni American billionaires 20th-century American businesspeople 20th-century American philanthropists 21st-century American businesspeople 21st-century philanthropists Businesspeople from Oklahoma