HUNTING and racing friends of Louis ‘Paddy’ Neilson MFH will be saddened to hear of his passing in America last week after a short illness. Paddy was a true legend as a horseman in the USA. Educated at Princeton University, he worked later as a bond trader in Philadelphia.

However, he swapped the financial markets for a career of hunting, race riding and training. He shared the mastership with his daughter Sanna, along with Dixon Stroud, of Mr Stewart’s Cheshire Hounds, where he also acted as honorary whipper-in to huntsman Ivan Dowling from Co Galway.