Allaire du Pont
| Allaire du Pont | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 4, 1913 United States |
| Died | January 6, 2006 (aged 92) Chesapeake City, Maryland |
| Residence | Chesapeake City, Maryland |
| Occupation | Aviator Racehorse owner/breeder |
| Known for | Kelso |
| Board member of |
The Jockey Club, Greener Pastures |
| Spouse(s) | Richard Chichester du Pont |
| Children | Richard, Jr. (1937–1986) Helena A. (b. 1939) |
| Parent(s) | Samuel A. Crozer & Helena Rutgers |
Allaire du Pont (May 4, 1913 – January 6, 2006) was an American sportswoman and a member of the prominent French-American Du Pont family of chemical manufacturers who is most remembered as the owner of the Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame champion, Kelso.
Born Helena Allaire Crozer, in 1934 she married Richard C. du Pont with whom she had a son, Richard Jr. and a daughter Helena. An avid sports person, she was an Olympic Trap shooter and a champion tennis player. Allaire du Pont and her husband were both glider and powered aircraft pilots. She set a national endurance record for women gliders in 1935. In the early days of flying when it was still a novelty, doing stunts was popular and she once flew her plane under the Chesapeake City bridge. Her husband died in 1943 while working for the War effort when a U.S. government experimental glider in which he was a passenger crashed during a demonstration flight. In 1947, she established the Richard C. du Pont Memorial Trophy to be awarded annually to the United States National Open Class Soaring Champion.
Always a lover of animals, Allaire du Pont operated Woodstock Farm in Chesapeake City, Maryland and raced under the nom-de-course Bohemia Stable. She hired future Hall of Fame trainer Carl Hanford to condition her horses for racing.
Bohemia Stables produced a number of top horses such as multiple stakes winner Politely and Shine Again, winner of the 2001 and 2002 Grade I Ballerina Handicap. However, it was her gelding Kelso who brought her wide recognition during the 1960s when he was voted U.S. Horse of the Year honors for an unmatched five consecutive years from 1960 through 1964 and was a 1967 Racing Hall of Fame inductee. A Fox hunting participant, after Kelso was retired Allaire du Pont rode him in hunts.
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