Allaire du Pont

Allaire du Pont
Allaire du Pont
Born	Helena Allaire Crozer; May 4, 1913; United States
Died	January 6, 2006 (aged 92); Richard Chichester du Pont
Children	Richard Jr. (1937–1986); Helena A. (b. 1939)
Parent(s)	Samuel A. Crozer &; Helena Rutgers

Allaire du Pont (May 4, 1913 – January 6, 2006) was an American sportswoman and a member of the prominent French-American

chemical manufacturers who is most remembered as the owner of the Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame

champion, Kelso.

Born Helena Allaire Crozer, in 1934 she married

pilots. She set a national endurance record for women gliders in 1935. In the early days of flying when it was still a novelty, doing stunts was popular and she once flew her plane under the Chesapeake City bridge. Her husband died in 1943 while working for the War effort when a U.S. government experimental glider in which he was a passenger crashed during a demonstration flight. In 1947, she established the Richard C. du Pont Memorial Trophy

to be awarded annually to the United States National Open Class Soaring Champion.

Thoroughbred horse racing

Always a lover of animals, Allaire du Pont operated Woodstock Farm in Chesapeake City, Maryland and raced under the nom de course Bohemia Stable. She hired future Hall of Fame trainer Carl Hanford to condition her horses for racing.

Bohemia Stables produced a number of top horses such as multiple stakes winner

U.S. Horse of the Year honors for an unmatched five consecutive years from 1960 through 1964 and was a 1967 Racing Hall of Fame inductee. A Fox hunting

participant, after Kelso was retired Allaire du Pont rode him in hunts.

A member of the

Windfields Farm in the area. A preservationist, du Pont was among the first to commit some of her property to Maryland's Agricultural Land Preservation Program. Following the death of E. P. Taylor in 1989, Allaire du Pont was instrumental in having 2,500 acres (10 km²) of his property go into permanent preservation rather than be sub-divided into building lots by real estate

developers.

Du Pont was also a co-founder and member of the board of directors of Thoroughbred Charities of America, an organization whose activities include raising funds to save retired horses. Among the other charitable causes to which she devoted both time and money were Paws for Life, Mid-Atlantic Horse Rescue, Greener Pastures, and the Union Hospital, of which she was an honorary member of the board of directors.

In 1983, Allaire du Pont, Martha F. Gerry, and Penny Chenery became the first women to be admitted as members of The Jockey Club.

The

Allaire du Pont Breeders' Cup Distaff

in her memory.

Allaire du Pont died January 6, 2006, at her Woodstock Farm near Chesapeake City, Maryland.

Authority control databases
International	VIAF
National	United States

Thoroughbred horse racing

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