Captain George Paynter 



Owing to his bodily weight standing in the way — 12 st. 

 5 lbs. being the lowest he was ever able to ride on a four-pound 

 saddle — Captain Paynter's race-riding was confined in a great 

 measure to Military and Hunt races. In these he met with 

 quite his share of success, as we shall show. 



His first ride in public was at Nottingham, on a horse called 

 Lincoln, who fell at the first open ditch. That, however, as 

 Mr. Toots would say, "was of no consequence," and merely 

 served as an incentive to further exertions. 



For three years in succession he won the Regimental Point- 

 to- Point, and the Regimental Steeplechase at Hawthorn Hill 

 twice. Then, in 1906, he won the Brigade of Guards Point-to- 

 Point, and was second for the same race in 1907 and 1908; 

 whilst he occupied the same position for the Ladies' Purse at 

 Melton in 1906 and 1907, winning it outright in 1908. In that 

 same year he won the Farmers' Hurdle Race at Croxton 

 Park on Mr. Cooper's Merry Susan, and took two races at 

 Melton, the Ladies' Purse previously mentioned being one 

 of them. 



He also won Lord Exeter's Open Point-to- Point, and was 

 second in the Army ditto. The Midland Hunt Cup at Notting- 

 ham, too, must be added to his score, besides a few selling races 

 of minor importance. In the present year (1909), Captain 

 Paynter, besides other successes, won the Scots Guards Regi- 

 mental Point-to- Point for the fifth year in succession on Fox, 

 who started favourite at evens, the race being run at the Annual 

 Point-to-Point of the Oakley Hunt, held on March 19th, over 

 the old Kimbolton Steeplechase course. 



At the Household Brigade Meeting at Hawthorn Hill, last 

 April, his horse, R.I.C, ridden by himself, started a red-hot 

 favourite at 7 to 4 for the Household Brigade Hunters' Challenge 

 Cup, but fell six furlongs from home. 



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