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...make the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree the hardest race in the world, the field began to dwindle last week. Youtell went down first, then Society and one of the favorites, Heartbreak Hill. Jock Whitney's Dusty Foot took off too soon and his rider, George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick. turned a double somersault, got up with his face cut.* The part of the 250,000 crowd that was in the grandstand lost the field as it moved around toward the Canal Turn. Not until the horses came thundering heavily past the stands the first time around could the dense...
...more about running the stable than her trainer. James Healy. When she acquired Kellsboro Jack -whose four-year-old brother Steeplejack II is owned by her husband-she was gratified because she had particular regard for his bloodlines (Jackdaw, sire. Kellsboro Lass, dam). Mrs. Clark is aunt to the Bostwick brothers, Pete and Albert. Their able riding is partly due to training they received from herself and Mr. Clark. Pete Bostwick, before he decided to ride Dusty Foot, had the chance to be Kellsboro Jack's jockey last week...
...Despite cuts & bruises, Pete Bostwick rode Dusty Foot again next day in the 41/2-m'. Foxhunters Chase over the same course. This time they got over all the jumps, finished fourth to Sir Grant Lawson's Half Asleep...
Waiting for the parade to the post this week Jock Whitney will have good reason to have faith in Jockey Bostwick and Dusty Foot. They won one of the most significant tests for the Grand National, the Open Hunters' Steeplechase at Sandown, month ago. Last fortnight they finished second in the National Hunt Steeplechase at Cheltenham (TIME, March 20). But Jock Whitney's excitement as he watches the field, cluttered at the start, narrow off toward Melling Road, will be evidence also of his faith in something even less tangible than Dusty Foot's chances in this...
Aviation is another Jock Whitney enthusiasm, but chiefly as an adjunct to polo and racing. Greentree is his polo team and he is a four-goal man, as good a back as hard-riding Pete Bostwick is a forward. Last summer he built a new field, carved out of the side of a hill on the Whitney place at Manhasset. L. I. Too heavy to ride his own steeplechasers in races, he rides to hounds, shoots, plays squash, flies his own cabin-plane, which was last year nearly destroyed by fire in its hangar at Roosevelt Field. The name...