Fred Winter


Frederick Thomas Winter, was a British National Hunt racing racehorse jockey and trainer. He was British jump racing Champion Jockey four times and British jump racing Champion Trainer eight times. He is the only person to have won the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle and Grand National as both jockey and trainer. Winter won the Grand National four times, as a jockey in 1957 and 1962, and as a trainer in 1965 and 1966.
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. The race was listed in The Guardian as one of the greatest races ever.
As a jockey he rode a then-record 923 National Hunt winners before his retirement in 1964.

Honours

He was appointed CBE in the 1963 Birthday Honours.
Cheltenham Gold Cup.
Champion Hurdle.
Grand National.
King George VI Chase
He won 45 times at the annual Cheltenham Festival, and is commemorated by the Fred Winter Juvenile Novices' Handicap Hurdle at the annual meet.
Details of his training career are as follows:
Stables: Uplands, Lambourn, Berkshire 1964–88
First runner and winner: Jay Trump, Sandown, 21 October 1964
Grand National winners: Jay Trump, Anglo
Cheltenham Gold Cup: Midnight Court
Champion Hurdle winners: Bula, Lanzarote, Celtic Shot
Champion Chase winner: Crisp
Other Cheltenham Festival winners:
Bula, Soloning, Pendil, Killiney, Soothsayer, Outpoint, Venture To Cognac, Roller-Coaster, Stopped, Rolls Rambler, Derring Rose, Friendly Alliance, Brown Chamberlin, Observe, Half Free, Glyde Court
Other notable winners:
Royal Sanction, Into View, Bula, Pendil, Lanzarote, Acquaint, Prayukta, Fifty Dollars More, Observe, Brown Chamberlin, Half Free, Plundering, Celtic Shot
Last runner and winner: Stag Dinner, Stratford, 4 June 1988
Champion trainer: 8 times: 1970–71 to 1974–75; 1976–77, 1977–78, 1984–85.
Most wins in a season: 99 in 1975–76
Total wins over jumps in Britain: 1,557 in 24 seasons
Main jockeys: Eddie Harty 1964–68, Bobby Beasley 1968–69, Paul Kelleway 1969–72, Richard Pitman 1972–75, John Francome 1975–85, Ben de Haan/Jimmy Duggan 1985–86, Peter Scudamore 1986–88