 In retirement during the 1950s, Dick McCreery took up polo again for a time, playing at Windsor Great Park.He hunted all his life with the Blackmore Vale Hunt, of which he became joint Master of Foxhounds.At the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 the State Coach was drawn by six grey horses, one of which was named McCreery, the others being named after five other Second World War generals, a distinction which must have been particularly appreciated by McCreery in view of his lifelong association with horses.