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A passionate foxhunter, Neilson hunted with Mr. Stewart’s Cheshire Foxhounds since childhood. Serving
as full-time honorary whipper-in for the last 13 years, he jumped his last fence just weeks before his death.
After the stock market crash of 1987, Neilson joined his wife, Toinette, as a full-time trainer at their Rockaway Farm in Chatham, Pa. He chaired the Pennsylvania Hunt Cup Races for 17 years and the Plumsted Farm Races for 11. He was also chairman of London Grove Township’s Open Space Committee and its Parks and Recreation Committee.
A passionate foxhunter, Neilson hunted with Mr. Stewart’s Cheshire Foxhounds since childhood. Serving as full-time honorary whipper-in for the last 13 years, he jumped his last fence just weeks before his death. He also served as master of foxhounds alongside his daughter, Sanna, and he chaired Cheshire’s most successful Point-to-Point Races in 2019.
“Most of my memories of Paddy center around timber racing,” says longtime friend Don Cochran. “I rode over timber for eight years, with Paddy as my trainer. I’ll never forget my first race at his beloved Plumsted Farm—the Marshall Jenny Memorial Heavyweight Race.
We were in the paddock waiting for the riders-up call, when he said to me sternly, ‘This is my race. Marshall Jenny was my friend, and I want to win. So get out front and stay there!’ Then he gives me a leg up and says, ‘Have fun.’
“I’m on a young, fairly green horse and had no idea what to expect, but I knew I was less afraid of that than facing him back in the paddock without the win. So I went out front and stayed there. In the paddock, there he was, grinning ear to ear, offering his famous, ‘Attaboy, well done.’”
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winter 2019-20
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