Captain George Paynter 



Stakes at Liverpool, which he won by a short head after a great 

 race with the favourite, ridden by Dick Chaloner, then at the 

 top of the tree as a cross-country horseman. March Hare, 

 Pennyhill, The Sapper, on which last he won the ;^500 steeple- 

 chase at Ludlow, all won in turn in his hands ; whilst on Ford 

 of Fyne, in addition to others, he won the Valentine Steeple- 

 cheese at Liverpool, and on Lady Gundrede, besides other 

 events of minor importance, the ;!^500 steeplechase at Ludlow. 



Furze Hill, Nelly Gray, Dead Level, Swanshot, and Fellar 

 were other horses on whom he had many successful rides, 

 whilst on Princess he carried off the Great Bangor Steeplechase 

 of ;^8oo. 



On giving up riding Mr. Withington took to training 

 steeplechase horses, at Fritwell, near Banbury, Oxon, from 

 whence he migrated in January of the present year to 

 Danebury, on whose historic downs, so many good horses, 

 both on the flat and over a country, have taken their 

 breathings from time to time. 



On February 14th, 1908, the subject of our memoir was 

 married to Nesta, eldest daughter of Sir Martenie and Lady 

 Lloyd, of Bronwydd, Cardiganshire, and Newport Castle, 

 Pembrokeshire. 



CAPTAIN GEORGE PAYNTER 



Never probably since the race was first established in 1859, at 

 the instance of the officers of the 5th Dragoon Guards,, has it 

 been witnessed by such a brilliant throng of brave men and fair 

 women as that which assembled in all its strength on the Gold 



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