Captain W. Murray-Threipland 



Captain Powell, who won the Grand Military on his own 

 mare, Cinderella, so long ago as 1846; Captain Henry 

 Coventry and Lord Manners, each of whom rode a Grand 

 National winner apiece ; and last — but not least — the subject 

 of this chapter, were, every one of them, Grenadier Guards- 

 men. Taking into consideration the short time he was riding, 

 coupled with the fact that, walking as he did over thirteen 

 stone, he found it very difficult to get into the saddle under 

 II St. 7 lbs.. Captain Murray-Threipland's record was one of 

 which any cross-country horseman, amateur or professional, 

 might be proud. 



The second son of the late Mr. W. Scott-Ker, of Chatto, 

 Roxburghshire, his name being changed to Murray-Threipland 

 in 1882, on succeeding to the estates of his cousin, the late 

 Sir Patrick Murray-Threipland, Bart., of Fingall and Kinnaird, 

 the subject of our memoir was born on the 21st of Dec, 1866, 

 and was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh, joining in 

 1885, first, the 3rd Battalion Royal Highland Militia, and two 

 years later, the Grenadier Guards. Having commenced his 

 riding career successfully by winning the Grenadier Guards 

 Cup on Fenian at Lingfield in 1891, Captain Murray- 

 Threipland rode regularly whenever his regimental duties 

 allowed, principally at meetings in the north of England and 

 Scotland, and nearly always on his own horses, which were 

 trained by himself at Kelso, amongst the best of them 

 being Frontier, by Gaston ; Dawn, by Joco ; Dalkeith, by 

 Keith — Maid of Loone ; Traynor, by Hollywood — Dawn by 

 Prelate ; and Lambay by Royal Meath— Lambthorpe, on which 

 last he won the Grand Military Gold Cup at Sandown Park 

 in 1899. 



With the Household Brigade Cup, the big race open only 

 to officers of the Household Brigade, and not often an easy 



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