Viscount Malden
Viscount Malden, of Loudwater, near Rickmansworth, learnt the art of riding in the Vale of Aylesbury, hunting regularly with various packs.
Viscount Malden, of Loudwater, near Rickmansworth, learnt the art of riding in the Vale of Aylesbury, hunting regularly with various packs.
He then rode successfully at such Hunt meetings as Worcester, Windsor, Huntingdon and Aldershot.
He then rode successfully at such Hunt meetings as Worcester, Windsor, Huntingdon and Aldershot.
His best win came on Lee & Perrin in the 1905 National Hunt flat race run over two miles at the Isle of Wight meeting, beating hot favourite Eastern Light, the mount of W. Bulteel. He also won the Old Berkeley Hounds Lightweight Hunt Steeplechase in the same year.
His best win came on Lee & Perrin in the 1905 National Hunt flat race run over two miles at the Isle of Wight meeting, beating hot favourite Eastern Light, the mount of W. Bulteel. He also won the Old Berkeley Hounds Lightweight Hunt Steeplechase in the same year.
1905 seemed to have been a fairly good year for him; on April 6, having finished second in the Heavyweight Hunt Steeplechase in that year's one-day meeting in the Vale of Aylesbury, he then came out on his father's good-looking Dirkhampton to beat eight others in a selling steeplechase, winning in masterly style by half-a-length after a tremendous set-to from the last fence with Lord Villiers on Don't Know.
1905 seemed to have been a fairly good year for him; on April 6, having finished second in the Heavyweight Hunt Steeplechase in that year's one-day meeting in the Vale of Aylesbury, he then came out on his father's good-looking Dirkhampton to beat eight others in a selling steeplechase, winning in masterly style by half-a-length after a tremendous set-to from the last fence with Lord Villiers on Don't Know.
He retired from racing shortly afterwards.
He retired from racing shortly afterwards.
He was knocked down by a car several weeks before his death and had been in indifferent health ever since.
He was knocked down by a car several weeks before his death and had been in indifferent health ever since.
Viscount Malden was found dead in bed at Lord Derby's Newmarket house on September 25, 1916.
Viscount Malden was found dead in bed at Lord Derby's Newmarket house on September 25, 1916.
