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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. ==Biography== He was born in Bisby Lake, New York to Mary 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.〔($29,264,181 TO HEIRS OF MRS. BOSTWICK; Widow of the Standard Oil Man G... - Article Preview - The New York Times )〕 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.〔http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%20Disk3/Cooperstown%20NY%20Otsego%20Farmer/Cooperstown%20NY%20Otsego%20Farmer%20&%20Republican%20Grayscale%201968%20-%201969%20pdf/Cooperstown%20NY%20Otsego%20Farmer%20&%20Republican%20Grayscale%201968%20-%201969%20-%200247.pdf#xml=http://fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=40bbba01&DocId=8578518&Index=Z%3a%2fFulton%20Historical&HitCount=9&hits=e+16+17+1d+4b+a0+c4+dd+e7+&SearchForm=C%3a\inetpub\wwwroot\Fulton_New_form.html&.pdf〕 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.〔(Gentleman Jockey - TIME )〕 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. As a trainer, in 1962 Bostwick became the first steeplechase trainer to have horses win more than $1 million in a single year. His horses were voted the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Steeplechase horse on six occasions: Oedipus (1950, 1951), Neji (1955, 1957, 1958), both of whom were voted into the United States Racing Hall of Fame, and Ancestor won the Eclipse Award in 1959. Bostwick was a resident of Old Westbury, Long Island, Gilbertsville, New York and Aiken, South Carolina. First riding at the age of 7 his horseman roots were at the famed Aiken Preparatory School where his aunt, Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock known as the "mother of U. S. polo", taught him and many leading polo players of the era their skill.〔 His talents attested to ultimately reaching an eight-goal rating. "Polo for the Public" was his motto at the Bostwick Field on Long Island, New York and polo for a purse was also inaugurated there. In his later years he maintained an immaculate polo field and stables (today ) at his sprawling farm in Gilbertsville, New York under the name of Village Farms. Bostwick also owned Haig Point Plantation on Daufuskie Island off of Hilton Head in South Carolina which he bought from Stiles Harper of Estill, SC in 1961 for $143,000. Pete skipped attending college remarking: "There is no use sitting in school when one can sit on a horse and go somewhere."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pete Bostwick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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