Gentlemen Riders 



Another sporting match he engaged in was to ride his horse, 

 Spot, from Newbridge to Dublin in an hour and twenty minutes, 

 for ^200; Captain "Tip" Herbert of the 9th Lancers being 

 the backer of Time, with the result that Sir Hugh won, having 

 accomplished the journey in one hour fifteen minutes thirty- 

 two seconds. 



A good horse owned by Sir Hugh in later years was one 

 named Wolf, on which he won the 4th Dragoon Guards 

 Challenge Cup, and the Dundalk Open Military Steeplechase. 

 Wolf also won the Downshire Cup at Punchestown, in 1892, 

 but in consequence of a bad fall in a previous race his owner 

 was unfortunately unable to ride. 



Though the chasing days in which he formerly took such a 

 delight are over — so far as taking an active part in the sport is 

 concerned, that is — Sir Hugh and the gallant regiment with 

 which he has been so long associated, are to be congratulated 

 on the possession of so able a representative in the field as 

 Mr. Dermot McCalmont, who has indeed proved himself a chip 

 of the old block. 



One so keen at the game has not been seen out for a 

 long while, and that he is a *' workman " in addition — and the 

 two do not always go together — may be gathered from the fact 

 that though he has only been riding for four months, out of the 

 twenty-eight steeplechases in which Mr. McCalmont has ridden 

 in the present year (1909), he has won four, been second on 

 eight occasions, and had seven falls ; whilst of the three point- 

 to-point races he has taken part in, he has won two. 



The subject of our memoir entered the Army in 1865, as 

 a cornet in the 9th Lancers, and served in the Red River 

 Expedition of 1870 (mentioned in despatches, and medal) ; the 

 Gold Coast in 1873 (medal) ; Armenia, 1877 (medal) ; A.D.C. 

 to Sir Garnet Wolseley in South Africa, 1879 (mentioned in 



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