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Winter

Fred Winter (senior) and Nancy Flanagan.
With their children (Left to Right): Sheila, Pat, Fred (junior), John.
Photo 1931 at Bredenbury stables, Epsom (where Fred senior was trainer).
See full size. Picture courtesy of Reynolds family.

Richard Winter,
Richard Charles Winter.
He mar Edith ----.
Living Feltham, W London, in 1896.
Listed as "merchant" on son's mar cert.
They had issue:

Fred Winter, senior,
Frederick Neville Winter,
born mid 1894, W London.
(todo) See birth of Frederick Neville Winter, [GRO.UK], Staines, Middlesex, 3rd qr 1894, vol 3a p 4.
He and 3 siblings were baptised together on 25 Sept 1896, at Feltham CoE church, London. See bapt entry from here.
Protestant. He became Catholic when married.
Flat race jockey.
Apprentice in Newmarket 1908.
He was just 16 yrs old when won 1911 Epsom Oaks on "Cherimoya", a filly who had never been on a racecourse before, and never ran again as she broke down.
He was Champion Apprentice 1911. He rode 76 winners that season, and finished 4th in overall list of jockeys while still only an apprentice.

Interned in Germany in WWI:
He was riding (with great success) for German National Stud when WW1 broke out, 1 Aug 1914, only age 19 or 20. The officials sportingly gave him 24 hours to get out of the country, but he didn't make it.
He spent 4 years in Ruhleben POW camp in Spandau, suburb of Berlin.
It was a remarkably civilized camp. His weight actually went up with inactivity and the good food.

After release 1918, he couldn't get re-established in racing in England.
He went to Ireland, where he met his wife.
He mar 19 Nov 1921 to Nancy Flanagan [born 29 August 1898]. He is listed as "jockey" at mar.
He rode a few seasons over hurdles, got weight down enough for flat.
He returned to England. They said he was never quite the same again (though he did win the Irish Derby).

They lived in England. Children brought up Catholic by their mother.
Though the Flanagans in Ireland were Irish nationalist, Nancy was not. After marriage she did not visit Ireland again until 1974.
Michael Peevey recalls: "My Gran (Nancy) was 100% pro British - in fact, in later life (approx. 70 yrs old) she saw a program about the history of Ireland and this was the first time that she had been made aware of the Famine in Ireland. Incredible huh?" (Especially given that her grandfather witnessed the Famine.)

Around 1926, Fred was a jockey at Weyhill, Hampshire.
They lived in a bungalow called "Cherimoya" (after his one classic winner), Andover, Hampshire.
He won Irish Oaks on "Haintonette" in 1928.
They moved briefly to Newmarket temp 1929.
He rode "Kopi" in 1929 Epsom Derby. He suffered a fall that was caught on video.
Soon after he won 1929 Irish Derby on "Kopi".
He retired as jockey 1929.

He moved to Epsom to train 1929.
Had Bredenbury stables, near railway station on Epsom Downs, there temp 1931.
Then he was trainer in Treadwell House.
"Anne Winter" wit the mar of her niece Doris Wing in Epsom in 1941.
Fred and family moved to Southfleet, Kent, 1941. Had stables. Fred was trainer there with his son John.
Moved to Newmarket, winter 1963-64.
He died July 1965, age 70 or 71 yrs.
In later years Nancy lived in the cottage adjoining her son John's stables, "Highfield" in Newmarket.
Nancy died Newmarket, 1987, age 89 yrs.
Fred and Nancy had issue:

Sheila Winter,
born in Dublin, 17 Sept 1922.
She mar 9 Oct 1945 to James Peevey and had issue.
They mar at the (Catholic) Oratory of St.Francis de Sales, Hartley, Kent.
Patricia Winter,
Patricia, born Epsom, 1925.
She was a radio operator for the RAF in WW2. She was stationed in London.
She mar pre-1949 to Doug Smith [the champion flat race jockey, born 1918]
and had issue.
Fred Winter,
Fred Winter junior, Frederick Thomas, Freddy, born 20 Sept 1926, "Cherimoya", Andover, Hampshire.
The famous steeplechase jockey and trainer.
John Winter.
John Rous Winter, Johnny,
born 4 Apr 1929, Rous Hospital, Newmarket.
Serious illness in 1947 (age 18) ended a highly promising career as a jockey.
He maintained a devoted record of his brother Fred's career.
He was a flat-race trainer with his father in Southfleet, Kent.
He and his father bought "Highfield", Bury Rd, Newmarket, winter 1963-1964.
His father died July 1965.
He mar Nov 1965 to Philippa Lavington.
He died 2000.
They had issue:
1. Nicola Winter, mar Michael Swinburn and had issue.
2. Emma Winter.
3. Jonathan Winter, mar Angie Sidebotham and had issue:
  1. Willow Winter.
  2. Rose Winter.

Nancy Flanagan.
See original.

Fred Winter senior and junior.
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Nancy Flanagan and her 4 children, 1980.
(Left to Right): Fred Winter, Patricia Winter, Nancy Flanagan, Sheila Winter, John Winter.
Picture courtesy of Elizabeth Innes.
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See other version.

Horse racing

Fred Winter, senior, on "Cherimoya", winner of the Oaks, 1911.
Picture courtesy of Michael Peevey.
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Cherimoya winning the 1911 Epsom Oaks.
See full size. From here.

Video of the Epsom Derby, 5 June 1929. Also here.
Fred Winter senior rode "Kopi" in it, but suffered a fall.
"Kopi" falls at 3:49.

Fred Winter, senior, on "Kopi", after winning the Irish Derby, 1929.
The man leading the horse is the millionaire owner Solomon ("Solly") Joel.
Picture courtesy of Michael Peevey.
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Video of Fred Winter, senior, winning the Irish Derby, 1929.