BCE Spring

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis:
Equestrienne
By Fred Glueckstein
Photos By Richard Corriden
A
t the 1940 National Horse pionship honors at the ﬁ nal, a skillful and daring horse-
Show at Madison Square those that watched her ride woman, who won many prizes
Garden, Miss Jacqueline that day saw a pretty, dark- throughout the east, captur-
Bouvier on her chestnut mare haired girl with pig-tails and ing the hunter championship
Danseuse competed against wide-set brown eyes dressed three times at the annual
the nation’s best young in boots, jodhpurs, jacket, National Horse Show.
equestrians in the ﬁ nals of the and derby. As she jumped the The Bouviers’ lived on Park
A.S.P.C.A (American Society fences, the young equestri- Avenue in Manhattan and
for Prevention of Cruelty of enne showed courage, grace, spent each summer in Wild-
Animals) Alfred Maclay Trophy and exceptional determina- moor at East Hampton near
for Horsemanship and the tion; the same traits that a Grandfather Bouvier’s splendid
A.S.P.C.A. Good Hands Cup. grieving nation would admire summer house, Lasata,
It was a double victory at in Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy where Janet kept her horses.
the Southampton Horse Show after her husband, President The most famous were a
on Long Island that qualiﬁ ed John F. Kennedy was tragically bay named Arnoldean and
the young rider to compete. killed in Dallas in November three magniﬁ cent chestnuts,
“Jacqueline Bouvier, an eleven 1963. Stepaside, Clearanfast, and
year old equestrienne from Danseuse.
East Hampton, Long Island, Born on July 28, 1929 in “Here from the age of ﬁ ve
scored a double victory in the Southampton, Long Island, on, Jacqueline, in full riding
horsemanship competition,” Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was habit,” her ﬁ rst cousin John H.
The New York Times reported. the ﬁ rst child of Janet Norton Davis wrote, “could be seen
“Miss Bouvier achieved a rare Lee and John Vernou Bouvier endlessly putting her mother’s
distinction. The occasions are III. A second daughter, Caro- horses, a procession of “la-
few when a young rider wins line Lee, was born four years dies’ hunters,” through their
both contests in the same later. John Bouvier, nicknamed paces. I remember how det-
show.” ‘Black Jack,’ was a well-to-do ermined an equestrienne
While she didn’t take cham- ﬁ nancier. Janet Bouvier was Jacqueline became as she
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