Word: pete
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that 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...
...remaining horse, Dusty Foot, who fell at the third fence last year when he was one of the favorites, may be the first U. S.-owned & ridden horse to win at Aintree. Dusty Foot's jockey this week was to be his owner's friend, George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick, ablest gentleman rider in the U. S. Pete Bostwick went to England last autumn planning to ride one of his own steeplechasers in the Grand National, but his likeliest mount, Burglar, trained badly. Last week he accepted the Whitney horse...
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...
...Steeplechase at Aintree: the Cheltenham Gold Cup, over three miles and three furlongs; at Cheltenham, England; with Thomond II. owned by Miss Paget's cousin, John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, second. Next day, a Whitney entry in next week's Grand National-Dusty Foot, ridden by George H. ("Pete") Bostwick-ran second to Ego, in Cheltenham's National Hunt Chase...
...County, vice president in charge of finance and corporate relations of the Pennsylvania R.R. with 121-down five from last year. Close behind was Henry Latham Doherty of Cities Service Co. with 114. Third, with 110, was Oilman Doherty's alter ego and legal prime minister, William Alton ("Pete") Jones, tall, trim executive chairman of Henry L. Doherty & Co., who last fortnight was playing handsome host to distinguished guests at Mr. Doherty's newly acquired hotel properties in Miami...