Fred Winter (horse racing)
- Fred Winter (horse racing)
Frederick Thomas Winter (
20 September 1926 -5 April 2004 ) was a BritishNational Hunt racing racehorsejockey and trainer. He wasBritish jump racing Champion Jockey four times andBritish jump racing Champion Trainer eight times.He is the only person to have won the
Cheltenham Gold Cup ,Champion Hurdle andGrand National as both jockey and trainer.He won the Grand National 4 times, as a jockey in 1957 (Sundew) and 1962 (Kilmore), and as a trainer in 1965 (Jay Trump) and 1966 (Anglo).
His most famous victory as a jockey was on Mandarin in the 1962
Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris at Auteuil. His victory despite his illness, a broken bit and Mandarin breaking down in the last half-mile was voted the greatest ride ever in a 2006 Racing Post poll.As a jockey he rode a then-record 923 National Hunt winners before his retirement in 1964.
References
*cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/horse_racing/3600947.stm |title=Racing mourns Winter |date=
2004-04-05 |publisher=BBC |accessdate=2007-10-22
*cite web |url=http://sport.independent.co.uk/general/article54782.ece |title=Racing: Fred Winter, a hero of the turf, dies aged 77 |author=Montgomery, Sue |date=2008-04-06 |accessdate=2007-10-22 |publisher=The (London) Independent
*cite web |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20040406/ai_n12777083 |title=Obituary:Fred Winters |author=Griffiths, Richard |date=2008-04-06 |accessdate=2008-07-11 |publisher=The (London) Independent
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