"STAN" REID TOP

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 45, 22 August 1938, Page 13

"STAN" REID TOP

TRAINERS IN MELBOURNE

The former New Zealander S. W. ("Stan") Reid was the most successful trainer in the Melbourne metropolitan area for the season just" closed. Several trainers scored more successes than he did, but his horses were the best stake-winners in aggregate, and stakes won is the standard adopted in Melbourne, not number of races won, as is the makeshift mode of allocating training honours in the Dominion.

Reid's horses won 8 races and were placed 11 times for £14,937 in stakes. The next trainer on the list is J. Holt, with 16 wins and 22 places for £12,181 in stakes; and third and fourth respectively are W. Burke (22 wins, 49£ places, £12,142 in stakes) and F. Musgrave (8 wins, 11 places, and £11,536 in stakes). J. Fryer, another New Zealander, was sixth, with 26 wins, 37 places, and £10,058 in stakes, and L. Robertson was eighth, with 14£ wins, 23 places, and £7588 in stakes.

Reid, who trains at Caulfield, has only a small team, including the Toorak Handicap, Caulfield Cup, and Melbourne Cup winner The Trump. He first came into note in Victoria as a cross-country rider. He went there from New Zealand in 1919 to ride the jumpers whom W. Hawthorne took across for Mr. W. R. Kemball. Reid's first ride at a V.R.C. Grand National Meeting was disastrous. For the Grand National Hurdles Hawthorne saddled Mr. Kemball's geldings, Gladful and Explorer. Reid rode Explorer, who fell,, and he suffered a broken collarbone.

Reid soon made his mark as a firstclass cross-country jockey, and won many hurdle races and steeplechases. In 1921 and 1922 he won the Grand National Steeplechase on Mountain God, trained for Mr. J. S. Feehan by the late H. Harrison. A season or two later he retired from race riding and set up as a trainer at Caulfield, preparing both flat racers and jumpers. He has never had a large team and until recent years has not had much luck. Six years ago he went close to winning the Melbourne Cup for Mr. Eccles with Yarramba, who beat all except Peter Pan.

"Jack" Fryer had a really splendid season, for it was his first year established across the Tasman. He saddled the winners of 28 races for stake money totalling £10,058. His number of races won was exceeded only by the 28 taken by F. W. Hoysted's team.