10-18-92
began thirsting after blue
ribbons in the many East End
horse shows she entered. ”
10-4-92
“I remember going out
10-17-93
to Lasata’s stables on late
summer afternoons,” Davis
“Danseuse was a family hat, Ascot tie, long leather
recalled, “and fi nding Jacque-
horse and every child had a boots,” recalled Samuel Lester,
line, after a day of relentless
ride on her. She was such a who exercised horses at the
riding, in the stall with one
lady. Her coat glinted in the East Hampton Riding Club.
of her horses, grooming the
sun when she was brushed “She was soon bringing home
animal with the most loving
and shining,” Jackie wrote. blue ribbons by the box load.”
care, currying its mane and
“She knew how lovely she was
tail, hugging it, kissing it.”
and fl icked her tiny feet out In June 1940, Janet ob-
in front of her as she trotted. tained a divorce from Jack
In the summer of 1934,
There was a soft, pink spot Bouvier. Later that summer,
Janet and Jacqueline, who
at the end of her nose and the girls joined their father
was known as Jackie, won
she would snuffl e softly when on Long Island, where Jackie
third prize in the family class
she knew you had an apple won every event in the under-
at the East Hampton Horse
for her.” twenty division of the East
Show. By the time she was
Jackie won the South- Hampton Horse Show, earned
eight, Jackie had a pony of
ampton Horse Show in the two top prizes at the East End
her own. At the age of twelve
children-under-nine class horse shows, and took high
or thirteen, Jackie rode her
in the summer of 1937, an honors at the National Horse
mother’s chestnut mare
accomplishment that made Show.
Danseuse, a horse she adored
the entire Bouvier family In 1941, twelve-year-old
and nicknamed Donny. Her
proud. In 1938, she captured Jackie again spent the sum-
beloved Danseuse, a Virginia-
another blue ribbon at the mer on Long island, where at
born mare sired by Runantel
East Hampton Horse Show. the East Hampton Horse Show
out of Graceful Carrie, won
By the following summer, the she won blue rosettes in the
many championships and
young equestrienne won her hunter hacks class, the horse-
remained with the Bouvier
class at Southampton, the manship class for children
family for twenty years. Years
major horse show of the 1939 under 14, the riding com-
later when the animal died,
season on the East End of petition for children under 16,
Jackie created a photographic
Long Island. and the ladies’ hunter contest
history of the mare’s life and
“I can still see Jackie in her for the Hamlin Memorial Chal-
wrote a warm tribute.
pigtails and riding outfi t – top lenge Cup. Overall, Jackie
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