George H. Bostwick
| Pete Bostwick | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Jockey / Trainer |
| Born | August 14, 1909 Bisby Lake, New York |
| Died | January 13, 1982 Palm Beach, Florida |
| Resting place | Aiken, South Carolina |
| Career wins | Not found |
| Major racing wins | |
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Broad Hollow Handicap (1950 & 1951) Brook National Handicap (1950, 1951, 1954, 1955) American Grand National (1951, 1957, 1958, 1962) Temple Gwathmey Handicap (1955 & 1957) |
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| Racing awards | |
| U.S. Champion Amateur Steeplechase Jockey (1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1941) U.S. Champion Steeplechase Trainer (1940, 1951, 1955) |
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| Honours | |
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United States Racing Hall of Fame (1968) Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame (1977) Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame (1996) Nassau County Sports Hall of Fame (2006) |
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| Significant horses | |
| Oedipus, Ancestor, Neji, Barnaby's Bluff | |
George Herbert "Pete" Bostwick (August 14, 1909 - January 13, 1982) was an American court tennis player, a steeplechase jockey and horse trainer, and an eight-goal polo player.
He was born in Bisby Lake, New York to Marie L. Stokes and Albert Carlton Bostwick. His grandfather, Jabez A. Bostwick, was a founder and treasurer of the Standard Oil Company of New York and a partner of John D. Rockefeller. His grandmother, Helen C. Bostwick, left upon her death in April 1920 a sum of $1,156,818 to him and similar amounts to his siblings. Among his cousins were the cross-dressing woman speedboat racer "Joe" a/k/a Betty Carstairs and the pilot Francis Francis.
Pete Bostwick's inherited wealth afforded him the opportunity to pursue a number of sporting interests. His father was a horseman and polo player and Pete Bostwick become one of a leading steeplechase owners, trainers, and riders. Pete Bostwick was a member of The Jockey Club and a patron of the National Tennis Club.
He rode Thoroughbred steeplechase horses from 1927 to 1949 both in the US and Grand National in the UK and also rode in flat racing. In flat racing he finished 4th in the 1928 running of the Belmont Stakes aboard Whisk Broom, owned by his uncle F. Ambrose Clark.
At Belmont Park in 1932 he became the second jockey (after Jockey W. C. ("Bill") Clancy in 1895) ever to ride a flat and steeplechase winner on the same day a feat which he repeated again within two weeks. Initially he rode to victory at Belmont Park aboard Thomas Hitchcock's Silverskin in a steeplechase and Latin Stables' Ha Ha in a flat race on the same day. Then repeated the feat two weeks later in the Metropolitan Driving Club, a 1-1/16-mi. flat race on J. F. Byers' Glaneur then won the Chamblet Memorial steeplechase on Mrs. Ambrose Clark's Madrigal II the same day.
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