John Osmael Scott-Ellis, 9th Baron Howard de Walden, 5th Baron Seaford (27 November 1912 - 10 July 1999) was a British

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 peer

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, landowner, and a Thoroughbred

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 racehorse

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 owner/breeder. He was the son of Margarita van Raalte and her husband, Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden

Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden

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 and was educated at Eton

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.

In 1931 he moved to Munich where he bought a car. On his first day behind the wheel he managed to knock over a pedestrian - Adolf Hitler

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He inherited Dean Castle

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 in Kilmarnock

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, East Ayrshire

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, Scotland

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 which, along with his father's collections of arms and armour, and his grandfather' collection of musical instruments, he gave to the people of Kilmarnock in 1975.

Plantation Stud

Lord Howard became involved in the sport of Thoroughbred racing immediately after World War II

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. In 1958 he bought Lord Derby's Plantation Stud

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 at Exning

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, just outside Newmarket.
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A steward of the Jockey Club

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, Lord Howard had success in National Hunt hurdle racing

Hurdling (horse race)

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 with Champion Hurdle

Champion Hurdle

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 winner, Lanzarote. On the flat

Flat racing

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, he won the 1985 Epsom Derby

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 with Slip Anchor

Slip Anchor

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. Among his other notable homebreds, Lord Howard met with considerable success both on the track and in the breeding shed with Kris

Kris (horse)

Kris was a racehorse owned and bred by the 9th Baron Howard de Walden, and trained by Henry Cecil. He was sired by Sharpen Up out of the mare Doubly Sure....

 who was the 1979 Champion European Miler and 1980 Champion European Older Miler and who went on to become the Leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland in 1985.