RACING OWNER'S DEATH

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20434, 12 October 1934, Page 9

RACING OWNER'S DEATH

Mr E. V. Riddiford, Well Known Sportsman. J*«r Pr««s Association. WELLINGTON, October 11. Private advice was received in Wellington to-night of the death at ssea, this morning, of Mr Edward Vivian Riddiford, of Glenburn and Tablelands. Mr Riddiford, who was fiftyfive years of age, was returning from a trip to England in the Rangitiki, which is due at Auckland on October 24, and was accompanied by his wife and his daughter. Pamela. One of the Dominion’s best-known ami most successful pastoralists, Mr Riddiford, whose home was at Woburn, Lower Hutt, was equally prominent in racing circles. He was a member of a family whose turf associations are part of the history of the sport in this country. He, with his brother Eric, won a large number of the principal handicap races in New Zealand, including the New Zealand Cup, the Auckland Cup and the Grand National Steeplechase. On his own account Mr Riddiford was holder of the Wellington Cup, Mitchelson Cup and other coveted trophies. Mr Riddiford was educated at Wanganui Collegiate School, and began his career as a sheepfarmer as a cadet at Te Awaiti, Wairarapa, the propertv of his father, Mr E. V. Riddiford. * He later managed his father’s properties, Longbum and Cheltenham, and upon his father's death in 1911 took over the Glenburn sheep and cattle run on the East Coast, Tablelands, the Romney Marsh sheep stud in Wairarapa and Brentwood, the noted Trentham racing stud. Mr Riddiford married Miss Zoe Thorne George, third daughter of the Hon Seymour Thome George. Auckland. Their two daughters are Mrs J I N ogel. Lower Hutt, and Miss Pamela Riddiford.