Colin Jillings

Colin Jillings
Occupation Horse trainer
Born (1931-03-11) 11 March 1931
Auckland, New Zealand
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

  1. ↑ Juliet Rowan, "Big week ahead for trainer in retirement", NZ Herald, 4 March 2006 (Retrieved 28 June 2018)
  2. 1 2 PW Watt, "History", St Peter's College (Retrieved 28 June 2018)
  3. ↑ Tony Hilton, "The Wellington Racing Cub:A Centennial History", AH & AW Reed, Wellington, 1979, p. 73.
  4. ↑ Glyn Tucker, "Thoroughbreads are my Life", AH & AW Reed, Wellington, 1978, p. 211.
  5. ↑ Fiona McKee, "Sunline: Heart of a Champion", Penguin, Auckland, 2005, pp. 65-76.
  6. ↑ Max Lambert, "November Gold:New Zealand's Quest for the Melbourne Cup", MOA publications, 1986, pp. 157 and 209.
  7. 1 2 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.
  • Galgarry, John (1990). Another Great Decade of NZ Racing 1980 – 1990. Auckland: Collins.



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