Evening star., 1932-06-29
RATED AS KING BEE
IN AMATEUR RANKS
Has Everything One Could
Wish, but Horses Come
First With Him.
BY WALTER TRUMBULL.

friends, but what he likes
best are horses. Give the
ordinary fellow of % fortune
and he will lie abed mornings. But
this youngster frequently has been
known to arrive at a race track at
5 am. to give some thoroughbred
its sunrise workout.
His aunt is Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock
and one of his uncless F. Ambrose clark
thinks that the only real ride is one
where there are a few walls, fences,
brooks and hedges in the path. They
christened him George Herbert Bost-
wick but he says, eff you write any
thing, call me Pete. All my friends call
me Pete"
He is the best amateur Jockey in the
country and the experts will tell you
that he is the best steeplechase Jockey
in any land. Only few men ever
have won a steeplechase and fiat race
in the same afternoon. Pete Bostwick
has done it twice.
NNE of his brothers is Albert G.
~ Bostwick. who owns Mate and an
other is Dunbar Bostwick, Yale
polo player. Pete Bostwick went to st.
Paul's School. at Concord. He might
have gone to Yale, but Uncle Ambrose
Clark, probably from the saddle Of a
hunter or the seat of coach and four,
is said to have roareu: why ruin 9
great rider to make mediocre scholars"
So Pete let Yale alone and went to
Belmont Park and the Long Island polo
fields instead.
And that is where you will find him
dnuTn
Westbury. if he is in this country. He
might. of course, be riding some jump
ers in England. A couple of years ago
he went to England and rode 10 win
ners cut of Is starters. That wasn't so
had but he thinks he can do better.
He saws he is learning things concern
ing riding all the time.
If. around where the horses or the
ponies are, in the jockeys inclosure, or
picking out polo mallet, you happen
to notice a chap with thoroughbred
lines small legs and fine shoulders, and
If he appears to be rather sad-eyed
little fellow, that probably is Pete Bost-
wick.
TTHAT sad expression isn't due to
Il melancholy nature. but, in order
to ride on the fat, he has worked
and dieted and taken OF weight, until
the skin is pulled tight over his cheek
bones and his eyes are pretty deep IN
his head and he strips at around IOS
pounds.
This is all right with his brother,
whose horses he rides, and it may be
all right with his uncle, but 1t GER
tairly is not all right with some other
notables. including that greatest OF
nolo backs, Devereaux Milburrl. Mil
burn darkly resents the fact that
good polo player is being spoiled to
make a fiat rider. .
"Pete is running himself" he says.
s'He should weight at least 125 pounds.
Then he would have something 10 put
behind the swing of mallet.
Pete Bostwich has been astride
pony since he was and played
polo since he was 10. "I used to play
at the Aiken Riding Club" he says.
"All of us did, when we were kids. we
used one of those soft balls"
A MIID-sRoKEN. courteous, modest
n youngster Is Pete. When a man
arranging a. radio program to ad-
Vertise a charity asked MN 10 Speah
into the microphone Tor a couple oi
minutes. he said: Listen, can't you
pet some one else? If speak over that
fhino IN be SO scared I probably will
fall off Mate.
He likes the1professional Jockeys.
Il have found practically all OF them
GOOD sports." Pete Bostwick says. II
Tou are mean and unwilling to give tne
other fellow his rights on the track,
you don't last long. Jockeys are square
shooters, but they learn to take care
of themselves. -. a..
"My first race? 1t was a race on the
fat when was II. I rode a horse pc
longing to my uncle. The best morse
7 ever rode? Wei, I suppose 1t Is
Mate. If you mean a jumper, snoulo
saw Chenango-a great jumper"
nETE BOSTwICK is more than
little rich boy and Jockey ana
nolo PLAYER and the brother ot
breeder of thofoughbreds. He Is a
horse owner himself. He has couple
Of horses in England now, and proposes
tn 90 over and ride one Of them In the
Grand National. Asked whether Ine
Grand National was not the most oan-
perous race in the world, Pete BostWlch
said hesitantly: r,... ovor
ridden in a Grand National 1t shoulo
be a lot Of fun"
fcopvrieht. 1882. by the North American
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