Raymond Hook with a cheetah. Portrait of Raymond Hook playing with a young cheetah. An eccentric settler farmer with a game ranch near Nanyuki, Hook is most often remembered for successfully cross-breeding zebras with domestic horses and for his attempts to bring cheetah racing to England. An original caption comments that he was found murdered in 1968. Nanyuki, Kenya, circa 1940. Nanyuki, Central (Kenya), Kenya, Eastern Africa, Africa.