John Horace Ingham AO (10 June 1928 – 5 August 2003) was a leading Australian businessman and co-founder of the largest thoroughbred horse racing and breeding operation in Australia.
[1] Now headquartered in North Ryde, New South Wales, the operation has annual sales of more than A$1.5 billion and a workforce in excess of 6,000 people.
Ingham's father had had an interest in breeding horses and, in addition to the poultry business, the brothers also inherited a broodmare named Valiant Rose.
The mare was a descendant of the great British racehorse Bend Or, an Epsom Derby winner and Champion broodmare sire.
The Ingham brothers used Valiant Rose to begin building what became an A$250 million breeding and racing operation, the largest in Australia.