Military Riders 



great request at the various Hunt meetings all over the country, 

 he figuring successfully not only at Aylesbury, Banbury, 

 Worcester, and the Beaufort Hunt, but at Windsor, the Isle 

 of Wight, Hawthorn Hill, South wick, Huntingdon, and Alder- 

 shot, where he proved quite capable of taking his own part 

 with professionals as well as amateurs. 



On Lee and Perrin in 1905, he won the National Hunt 

 flat race, over two miles at the Isle of Wight meeting, beating 

 a hot favourite in Eastern Light, the mount of Mr. W. Bulteel. 

 He also won the Old Berkeley Hounds Light-weight Hunt 

 Steeplechase in the same year. 



After the war, Lord Maiden went out to South Africa, 

 and whilst there, went in extensively for pony racing, with 

 more than his share of success. 



With his marriage in 1905, when barely of age, to Miss 

 Evelyn Freeman, daughter of the late Mr. R. Stewart Freeman, 

 J. P., D.L., of the Old Manor House, Wingrave, and one of 

 the most accomplished horsewomen to be met with in the Vale 

 of Aylesbury, Lord Maiden's race-riding career came to an 

 end, and terminating as it did at an age when that of the 

 majority of amateur horsemen usually commences, it may well 

 be described as " short but sweet." 



MILITARY RIDERS 



1870-1909 



It is not at all improbable that many a race-goer in the seventies, 

 to whom names such as Colonels Knox and Harford, Captains 

 Smith, Hope Johnstone, and " Driver" Browne, were familiar 

 enough, inasmuch as they were constantly staring him in 



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