Gentlemen Riders 



What a price ! 7 to 4 in a field of seventeen runners, and 

 the majority of them unknown horses ! Who wouldn't be a 

 bookie ? 



The late Major George Paynter — father of Captain Paynter 

 — who for many years was secretary to the Quorn, and always 

 managed the Melton races — was also in his day a fine horseman 

 over a country, amongst races won by him being the Melton 

 and Oakham Town Cups and the Ladies' Purse at Melton ; 

 whilst at the close of the Crimean War, in which he served with 

 distinction, he won one of three magnificent diamond gold cups 

 given by the Sultan of Turkey to be competed for by officers of 

 the British Army. 



Mr. CHANDOS DE PARAVICINI 



Keenest of sportsmen and admittedly one of the hardest and 

 best riders of the day over Leicestershire, it would be passing 

 strange were not the subject of this chapter occasionally seen 

 to advantage in a silken jacket. Accordingly, though not 

 making a regular practice of race-riding, when Croxton Park 

 comes round he is pretty sure to be found amongst the riders 

 in the Private Sweepstakes and Granby Handicap, whilst later 

 in the year he favours the Brighton, Lewes, and Bibury Club 

 Meetings, at all of which he has made his mark at various 

 times. Born on October 17th, 1880, he went to Harrow in 1894. 

 and whilst at the "School on the Hill," was in both football 

 and cricket elevens, playing against Eton at Lords in 1899, in 

 which year he left. 



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