W. J. Broughton Leads On Jockeys’ List For Season

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27395, 7 July 1954, Page 4

W. J. Broughton Leads On Jockeys’ List For Season

RACING

W. J. Broughton appears assured of winning the jockeys’ premiership for the 1953-54 season. With four week’s racing yet to be held, he is in a very comfortable position with a tally of 62 wins.. His nearest challenger, G. F. Hughes, has ridden 53 winners.

N. B. Holland and C. H. Mackie share third position on the list at this stage with 46 wins each. Next in order is E. G. Low, of Riccarton, with 35 winning rides. J. P. Riordan is the leading apprentice rider, with 24 wins. On the general list he is fifteenth equal. Riordon is apprenticed to the Te Awamutu trainer, J. L. McDonald.

Broughton has won the premiership on 10 previous occasions. He first topped the list in the 1936-37 season. It is not likely that iie will better his best score for one season this term, for in the 1938-39 season he rode 80 winners.

K. Voitre holds the record for winning rides in one season with a tally of 123, which he established in the 1931-32 season. In the 1930-31 season, Hi E. Gray rode 116 winners. These are the' only two riders to have ridden more than 100- winners in New Zealand in the last 30 years. The list of leading jockeys at this stage of this season is:—

W. J. Broughton 62, G. F. Hughds 53, N. B. Holland 46, C. H. Mackie 46, E. G. Low 35, C. McDonald 35, A. J. Stokes 35, J. H. Hely 34, W. L. Aitken 33, V. J. Sellars 30.

W. F. Ellis 29, R. J. Skelton 28, W. D. Skelton 28, N. Eastwood 26, W. J. Mudford 24, J. P. tliordan 24, B. P. Wood 24, N. A. Crombie 23, A. C. Messervy 23. C. A. Bowry 22, K. D. Campbell 22, R. Forbes 22, J. W. Harris 22, K. Nuttall 22, B. J. Anderton 20, J. M. Cappie 20. ,

The Trainers F. Trilford, of Wasdyke, has a good chance of winning the trainers’ prem« ier&iip for the first time in his career. Brown Baron’s success in the main event at Washdyke on Saturday brought Trilford’s tally to 32 wins, and this is four more than his closest A. E. Didham (Wingatui) and J. L. McDonald (Te Awamutu), who share second place with 28 wins each.

Fourth oh the trainers’ list at this stage is T. F. Verner, Takanini, who has produced the widnerp of 26 races. The largest number of races won in a season by a trainer in the last 30 years is 52. This record was established in the 1935-36 season by T. R. George. Four seasons later the same trainer prepared the winners of 51 races, and the only other trainer to have reached that score in the last 30 years was H. Dulieu, in the 1939-40 season.

The list of leading trainers at this stage of this season is:— F. Trilford (Washdyke) 32, A. E. Didham (Wingatui) 28, J. L. McDonald (Te Awamutu) 28, T. F. Verner (Takanini) 26, W. E. Hazlett (Invercargill) 24, J. L. Muir (Awapuni) 24, H. A. Anderton (Wingatui) 23, F. W. Ellis (Invercargill) 23 . J. R. Cochrane (Gore) 22, I. Robinson (Matangi) 21, H. H. Riley (Takanini) 21, D. P. Wilson (Mosgiel) 21, A. H. Christmas (Awapuni) 20, L. Knapp (Awapuni) 20, W. A. McMillan CPihama) 20.

S. A. Brown (Woodville) 19, H. P. Long (Te Rapa) 19, C. J. Walsh (Kaiata) 19, G. W. B. Greene (Hastings) 18, L. W. and R. L. Dulieu (Awapuni) 17.

R.. T. Cotter (Te Rapa) 16, E. Ropiha (Otaki) 16, L. H. Pratt (Orari) 15, W. W. Towngend (Cambridge) 15, J. J. Waller (Awapuni) 15.