Colin Jillings
Colin Jillings | |
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Occupation | Horse trainer |
Born | Auckland, New Zealand | 11 March 1931
Honours | |
New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame | |
Significant horses | |
Sunline, Yamen, McGinty, Hunterville, Uncle Remus, I'm Henry, The Phantom Chance |
Colin Jillings (born in Auckland 11 March 1931[1]) is a leading trainer in thoroughbred horse racing in New Zealand and is a former jockey.[2]
He was known as an "Ellerslie boy". He was a racing apprentice at an early age (from 1943) and caught the train to school at St Peter's College each day after early riding at the Ellerslie Racecourse.[2] He trained his first Auckland Cup winner in 1955, and his first Derby winner in 1958 with Yamen a five-year old gelding.[3] As a trainer, although operating with a smaller team than most other trainers, Jillings managed to keep producing top horses every year.[4] Jilling was involved in the training of Sunline a consistent winner in the late 1990s and early 2000s.[5] Jillings also trained horses for the Melbourne Cup races.[6] Jillings trained The Phantom Chance which won the 1993 W.S. Cox Plate. Jillings trained 1327 winners in total, 703 of those in partnership with fellow trainer Richard Yuill.[7]
Jillings was inducted into the New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame in 2008.[7]
References
- ^ Juliet Rowan, "Big week ahead for trainer in retirement", NZ Herald, 4 March 2006 (Retrieved 28 June 2018)
- ^ a b PW Watt, "History", St Peter's College (Retrieved 28 June 2018)
- ^ Tony Hilton, "The Wellington Racing Cub:A Centennial History", AH & AW Reed, Wellington, 1979, p. 73.
- ^ Glyn Tucker, "Thoroughbreads are my Life", AH & AW Reed, Wellington, 1978, p. 211.
- ^ Fiona McKee, "Sunline: Heart of a Champion", Penguin, Auckland, 2005, pp. 65-76.
- ^ Max Lambert, "November Gold:New Zealand's Quest for the Melbourne Cup", MOA publications, 1986, pp. 157 and 209.
- ^ a b Colin Jillings, New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame (Retrieved 28 June 2018)
Sources
- Galgarry, John (1983). The Great Decade of NZ Racing 1970 – 1980. Auckland: Collins.
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