Searching (1952–1973) was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racemare.
Foaled at Claiborne Farm near Paris, Kentucky where the Wheatley Stable (founded in 1926 by Gladys Mills Phipps and her brother, Ogden L. Mills) bred and raised its horses.
[1] After the Second World War, Gladys's son Ogden Phipps purchased a number of horses from the estate of Colonel Edward R. Bradley and his Idle Hour Stock Farm.
Phipps bred Big Hurry (the racing daughter of Bradley's favorite stallion, Black Toney, out of Bradley's broodmare La Troienne) to the fourth winner of the U.S.
[1] Searching raced poorly in her first 20 starts under Hall of Fame trainer James E. Fitzsimmons, Phipps sold her to Ethel Jacobs, the wife of another Hall of Fame trainer, Hirsch Jacobs.