RON SHEATHERFormer jockey and racehorse trainer Ron Sheather died aged 77 on 3 May, 2009.
The racing world paid tribute to a man who had a winner in every Group race each season bar one in 13 consecutive years to 1989.
Mr Sheather was jockey, trainer and racing manager for owner Jeff Smith. He had been ill for some time.
His most memorable period was probably during the mid 1980s. In 1983 Chief Singer won the Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot on his debut before the following season scoring a treble triumph in the July Cup, the St James's Palace Stakes and Sussex Stakes.
Mr Sheatherhad no formal education and was apprenticed to the Duke of Norfolk.
He left to join Ernie Davey, for whom he won the Ayr Gold Cup as a jockey.
After moving into training in the 1970s he was based in Newmarket.
"Despite no formal education he was the wisest man I've ever met," said James Eustace, who took over his yard and trained for Jeff Smith, for whom Ron had been racing manager at Park Lodge Stables since his retirement.
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