CAPTAIN CLAUDE CHAMPION DE 

 CRESPIGNY, D.S.O. 



Prominent amongst the military riders of the present day — 

 it would be hard indeed to name his superior — is Captain 

 Champion de Crespigny, of the 2nd Life Guards, eldest son 

 of the popular Baronet who forms the subject of a previous 

 chapter, and, as might be expected, is a true chip of the 

 old block. 



Born on September 4th, 1873, and educated at Eton, Captain 

 de Crespigny's riding career actually commenced previous to 

 joining the Army, his first mount being at the Sports Club 

 Meeting, held at Lingfield in the spring of 1894, on which 

 occasion he not only rode the winner of the Light Weight Cup, 

 but, later on, the Heavy Weight also ; his father, Sir Claude, 

 who had got a bad fall in the first race, giving up his mount 

 in the last named to his son. Since that period, Captain de 

 Crespigny has gone on steadily riding whenever his military 

 duties permitted, not only at home, but in India and America. 



In 1906, amongst other events, he won the Household 

 Brigade Cup at Hawthorn Hill, whilst in the present year 

 of grace, the Grand Military Handicap Steeplechase at Sandown 

 fell to his share. 



In addition to the legitimate game. Captain de Crespigny 

 has been exceptionally fortunate in point-to-point races, winning 

 that in connection with the now extinct Queen's Stag Hounds 

 on two separate occasions. 



That he is a hard man to hounds almost goes without 

 saying, and when we add that the subject of this memoir has 

 the reputation of being one of the best polo players in the 



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