Measurements: 7.3cm (2.8in) x 11.8cm (4.5in) x 15cm (6in)
Silver mounted hoof of an officer’s charger adorned with silver shoe and chased mount, the hinged lid to the gilt interior compartment engraved ‘Miss Morris / Winner / Army Light Weight Point to Point / 1898 / Household Brigade Point to Point / 1899’, the whole composed by master taxidermist Rowland Ward of Piccadilly, London. Maker’s and retailer’s mark Rowland Ward Ltd, 166 Piccadilly, London. Hallmarked London 1916.
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Miss Morris was ridden to victory by Captain the Hon. W.H. Lambton, Coldstream Guards, later Major-General Sir William Lambton, KCB, CMG, CVO, DSO (1863-1936). Born the son of George Lambton, 2nd Earl of Durham and educated at Eton College and Sandhurst, Lambton was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards in 1884. He became Aide-de-camp to Governor General of Ireland in 1895 and then served with the Egyptian Army. He took part in the Nile expedition of 1898 and fought at the Battle of Atbara and the Battle of Omdurman. He served in the Second Boer War and was part of the Kimberley Relief Force, he was present at the Battle of Magersfontein on 10–11 December 1899 and was mentioned in the despatch of Lord Methuen, who described the how Lambton had refused to leave the battlefield after being wounded. He also served as Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief of the Transvaal during the Second Boer War. He was appointed Commanding Officer of 1st Bn Coldstream Guards in 1912, Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General for London District in 1913 and Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force at the beginning of the European War before becoming General Officer Commanding 4th Division in 1915. He retired in 1920 and was to married Lady Katherine de Vere Somerset, née Beauclerk, daughter of William Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans in 1921. He died at on the French Riviera in 1936.