Sardar (Urdu: سردار, born around 1952) was an award-winning Pakistani Thoroughbred[1][Note 1] jumping horse belonging to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
[2] Sardar arrived at Andrews Air Force Base in the US in April 1962, spent 34 days in quarantine and then took up residence at the Kennedy country home Glen Ora in Middleburg, Virginia.
[4] At the age of 10 years, on 22 March 1962, the then president of Pakistan, Muhammad Ayub Khan, gifted the horse to First Lady of the United States, then known as Jacqueline Kennedy.
[4] In April 1962, a couple of weeks after Kennedy's return to the US, Sardar and his trainer travelled to the US by Military Air Transport Service, which was typically making regular flights to Pakistan.
[3] Initially unkeen on spending time at the President's holiday retreat, Camp David, Kennedy had stables constructed there, which allowed her to keep and enjoy Sardar there.