General Burn-Murdoch, C.B. 



During the whole of 1885 he was abroad on active service 

 with his regiment, so there was no more riding until the follow- 

 ing year, when he resumed work once more, the success he 

 met with being sufficient proof that his skill in the saddle was 

 in no degree impaired through want of practice. 



In 1893, having ridden a large number of winners in the 

 interim, both in point-to-point races on horses belonging 

 to himself and then under National Hunt Rules, General, 

 then Major, Burn-Murdoch won the Grand Military Gold Cup 

 for the second time of asking, his mount being that good 

 horse, the Midshipmite, belonging to Mr. H. L. Powell, who, 

 carrying 1 3 st. 7 lbs., won easily from six others. 



Shortly after this, the subject of our memoir had again to 

 leave for Egypt to take part in the campaign, and there he 

 remained until 1897, when he returned to England to renew 

 his long-abandoned race-riding with greater zest than ever, 

 winning, amongst others, the South Hunt Cup on Chieftain H. 

 This horse with another, named Snuftbox, on which he had 

 previously won the Atherton Hunt Point-to-Point, when the 

 property of Mr. Cray, accompanied General Burn-Murdoch all 

 through the war in South Africa, where they proved as good 

 campaigners as they are " fox catchers," even to this day, proof 

 of which is furnished by the fact that the last-named old 

 warrior was the horse his owner told us, in a letter written 

 on the 30th of October, 1907, he hoped to ride at the opening 

 meet of the Quorn on the morrow. 



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