Pete Bostwick

George Herbert Bostwick, known as Pete, was an American court tennis player, steeplechase jockey, horse trainer and eight-goal polo player. Born on 14 August 1909 into a wealthy New York family, he rode steeplechase horses from 1927 to 1949 in the United States and at the Grand National in England. In 1932 he became the second jockey to ride a flat race winner and a steeplechase winner on the same day at Belmont Park. As a trainer he was the first steeplechase trainer whose horses won more than one million dollars in a single year, in 1962. In polo he promoted the game with the motto polo for the public at Bostwick Field on Long Island, and he was inducted into the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame in 1996. He died of a heart attack in 1982 while playing polo.