FROM STUD AND STABLE E. A. Winsloe Has Long Lead On Trainers’ List

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30144, 30 May 1963, Page 5

FROM STUD AND STABLE E. A. Winsloe Has Long Lead On Trainers’ List

With only two months of the season left, E. A. Winsloe, of Gore, has the trainers’ premiership as good as won. Members of his team have won 44 races, and he is eight points ahead of his nearest rival, E. .Temperton, oPAwapuni.

Winsloe is one of the younger South Island trainers, and he is at the top of the trainers’ list for the first time. But he has had other notable firsts in his association with racing.

Winsloe served his apprenticeship at Gore, with the late J. R. Cochrane, but he had to battle against weight before he had been riding long, and was near the end of his riding career by 1950. The Birchwood Hunt meeting at Invercargill that year was chosen for the debut of a Lo Zingaro gelding in the stable. This horse did not seem precocious enough to win first up. and Winsloe rode him at a stone overweight, but that did not stop him from winning at long odds. The horse was Cogitation, and Winsloe’s association with him was 100 per cent, successful —one ride, one win. Won On The Hob Winsloe also rode The Hob when that good galloper won his first race as a two-year-old at Invercargill.. His first winning ride was on Sumra in a Waimate Cup. and he later was to become enthusiastic about that mare’s qualities as a producer, for she left Liban, the biggest winners yet to go through the stable.

Like his contemporary and friend Rex Cochrane, who is also at Gore. Winsloe is establishing a good record with his jumpers. Vamoose gave the stable a great start for the season by winning the Grand National Hurdles. Lucky Game has been the star of the stables in the last few weeks by winning three steeplechases in the south, two of them at Riverton. Winsloe races Lucky Game himself: he bought the Lucky Bag gelding cheaply at a sale in Christchurch, .and has secured a notable oargain. Test For Vamoose An interesting development in the last few weeks is Winsloe’s move to prepare Vamoose for steeplechasing, and the Southland-owned chestnut' will probably have his first race test over coun-

try in the Otago Steeplechase on Saturday. Unlike some horses that have been big winners as hurdlers. Vamoose is on the minimum in the Wingatui race, and if he jumps competently he should have a definite edge on the others for speed and stamina. Winsloe’s closest South Island rivals on the trainers’ list will have big teams engaged at the Dunedin meeting. At present, the Wingatui Anderton- stable is third with 33 wins, two . points ahead of Rex Cochrane, who advanced to 31 by winning three races at .Waimate. last week.

If numbers count for anything, the Anderton’s could have quite a day at Wingatui on Saturday. Eighteen members of the team were accepted for. and they are spread over seven of the eight races. Five In Hurdles There is a heavy concentration of Anderton-trained jumpers in the Greenfield Hurdles, ,with Ravelston, The Slug, Tunku, Matlock and Mondovi engaged. There could be four runners for the stable in the Brighton Improvers’ Handicap, though ont of them, Lucky Streak, is still a reserve; and three in the hack steeplechase—Sydtrev, Promise and Runty. With the high-class winter galloper Kumai in the Birthday Handicap, and Port Lanyard—he has won his last three races—in the Otago Steeplechase no-one will be greatly surprised if the stable wins half the programme. - Trainers of 20 or more winners are:—

E. A. Winslow, 44; E. Temperton, 36; H. A. Anderson, 33; R. J. Cochrane, 31; T. R. Howe, 30; R. T. Cotter, L. H. Pratt, E. Ropiha, 25; W. C. Winder, 23; P. Burgess, 21; G. G. Cameron, 20. Two-Sided Tussle A keen tussle for the jockeys’ premiership has developed again this season between two brothers who have dominated the jockeys’ premiership for the last eight years. The brothers are R. J. and W. D. Skelton, one or the other of whom has .won the jockeys’ premiership every year since 1955. During that time they have won, altogether, 1024 races. ‘ Between them the brothers have won 128 races this season. At present R. J. Skelton is leading, but only by four •wins. A month ago he had a lead of 12. The Skelton brothers will be riding at the Dunedin winter meeting, and in three days’ ra,cing the lead could change. * Riders of 20 or more winners this season, are:—

R. J. Skelton, 66; W. D.

Skelton, 62; G. R. Edge, 41; L. K. Tinsley, G. F. Hughes, 38; A. T. Jones, 36; R. W. Taylor, K. S. Cullen, J. F. Grylls, 32; G. W. Mein, 27; J. T. Anderson, L. J. Hodren, J. R. Dowling, 26; D. N. Hadfield. G. W. Wright, D. J. Wyatt, 25; B. J. Anderton, 24; N. B. Holland, G. N. McLeish. 23; J. S. Humphries, J. D. Pankhurst, 21; V. R. Coley, R. Fisher, R. A. Jenkins, D. A. Raklander, 20. Last season, R. J. Skelton won with 91 wins and the seasoh before W. D. Skelton won with 80. Their tallies so far this season are 66 (R. J.), and 62. Since. 1955 R. J. Skelton has won three -premierships and W. D. has won four. Their record for the period is:— 1955- R. J. Skelton, 72 (first); W. D. Skelton, 44 (seventh). 1956- W. D. Skelton, 66 (first); R. J. Skelton, 33 (tenth). 1957- W. D. Skelton. 89 (first); R. J. Skelton, 56 (second). 1958- W. D. Skelton, 66 (first); R. J. Skelton, 48 (third). 1959- R. J. Skelton, 69 (first); W. D. Skelton, 40 (fourth). 1960- W. D. Skelton. 80 (first); R. J: Skelton, 77 (second). 1961- R. J. Skelton, 91 (first); W. D. Skelton, 65 (second).