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Trevor Pink, aged 34, died in hospital on 14 February, 1965, from injuries sustained in a fall from Balus Boy in the 3.30 race at Taunton the previous afternoon.
Though not seriously injured in the initial fall, Trevor was dreadfully unlucky in that a following horse clipped his head
with a hoof as it came over the fence.
Trevor still managed to walk away and, when the ambulance arrived, he needed persuading to get in and go to hospital.It was on his arrival that the seriousness of his injury was fully realised.
He had suffered concussion with internal bleeding of the skull.
Trevor died early next morning.
Trevor was born in 1931 in Bishops Waltham, Hampshire.
He spent his early life living in and around Bishops Waltham as well as living for a short time in Fordingbridge with his uncle.
His father served in the Royal Flying Corps and was later employed as Chief Engineer on the flying boats when based at Poole Harbour, later transferring to Southampton.
His parents also ran the Wheatsheaf Inn at Shedfield near Botley for a while, just before WW2.
A few years after Trevor finished his National Service, he moved to Parkstone in Poole, Dorset, to live again with his uncle who had moved there from Fordingbridge.
His cousin, who was working at the RMYC in Sandbanks, introduced him to Royce Turner (M D of British Seagull outboard engines and brother of socialite Norah Royce Turner, later Lady Docker) who was looking for a handyman at his home 'Four Winds' on Banks Road in Sandbanks.
Trevor had been an apprentice stable boy for trainer Bill Wightman, and, while living at Poole, would ride horses for trainer Mrs Louise Dingwall, who was based in Panorama Road in Sandbanks.He later returned to Bill Wightman and lived in a cottage on Ower Farm.
Trevor was married to Joan and had a daughter, Christine, by his first wife, Vera.
(above) THE FATEFUL RACE
Tony Flood was originally booked to ride Balus Boy, but he took a fall in the first race from Girllanda and was stood down.
Trevor is buried at St Mary's, Upham, Hants
I am grateful to author Chris Pitt (Long Time Gone & Go Down to the Beaten) for supplying the following information
Trevor's racing record is as follows:
1960/61 5 winners from 35 rides
1961/62 1 winner from 57 rides
1962/63 3 winners from 39 rides
1963/64 4 winners from 78 rides
1964/65 No winners
Trevor's 13 winners were:
1. Phoenix Park, Sandown, 15 Dec 1960
2. Sarah's Boy. Worcester 6 March 1961
3. Roxburgh. Lingfield, 16 March, 1961
4. Piper. Wincanton. 20 April, 1961
5. Piper. Fontwell. 26 April 1961
6. Roxburgh. Windsor. 2 December, 1961
7. Roxburgh. Fontwell. 11 September 1962
8. Valley Rock. Fontwell. 26 April 1962
9. Roxburgh. Fontwell. 7 November, 1962
10. Nasserling. Wincanton. 10 October, 1963
11. Fair Cobbler. Worcester. 30 October, 1963
12. Badbury Rings. Kempton. 20 November. 1963
13. Nasserling. Windsor. 23 November 1963
Trevor finished third on Badbury Rings in the 1963 Becher Chase on 2 November, 1963. He then won on him at Kempton next time out. In their next race, they finished second in a two-mile Handicap Chase at Kempton on 17 December, 1963.
St Mary's lies just a short distance from Trevor's (then) home at Ower Farm, Upham, Hants., the stables of trainer Bill Wightman, (left), who trained Halloween to win two King George Vl Chases.
Aged 95, Bill Wightman died on Monday, 30 November, 2009.
It was on a horse trained by Wightman that Trevor, born in 1931, made his racing debut when partnering Hilarion in the Tangmere Hurdle at Fontwell Park on Wednesday, 30 September, 1959
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