Mr. C. R. Champion de Crespigny 



not only in name, but in deeds — who so ably represents the 

 Grenadier Guards at the time we are writing. Mr. C. de 

 Crespigny's first successful mount was at Hawthorn Hill, a 

 favourite course with members of his family, on which occasion 

 he won the Drag Hunt Cup on a horse named McKinnell, and 

 a very popular, and we might add appropriate win it was, 

 seeing that not only was the successful jockey the Master of 

 the Windsor Drag at the time, but the youngest Guardsman 

 who ever held that responsible position. 



Mr. de Crespigny's weight unfortunately is prohibitive to 

 his getting so many mounts as his elder brother in the 2nd 

 Life Guards, an account of whose riding career is given in the 

 preceding chapter, but, in spite of that drawback, his winning 

 average is an excellent one. 



In the present year he won the Tally Ho Steeplechase at 

 the Grand Military meeting at Sandown, whilst at Hawthorn 

 Hill he won the Household Brigade Hunters' Challenge Cup 

 for the third time with that good horse Kozak, and the ** Grena- 

 diers' Cup " for the fifth time in succession. 



Kozak, a bay horse by Carlton — Koza, originally be- 

 longed to the late Major Dalbiac of the Horse Artillery, 

 familiarly known as " The Treasure," who on his departure 

 to South Africa to take part in the Boer War, presented him to 

 his friend Sir Claude C. de Crespigny as a keepsake. 



Since then Kozak has won no fewer than twenty-three 

 steeplechase and hurdle races under Grand National Hunt 

 Rules, and as he is still sound on his legs, there is no earthly 

 reason why he should not go on winning brackets for another 

 couple of years or so. 



It has always been a mystery in the Service why Mr. de 

 Crespigny was not awarded that much-coveted trophy, the 

 Grand Military Gold Cup, with Prince Talleyrand. 



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