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Ronald John Vibert's 100th winner came on Prince Gin over two and a half miles at Warwick on Monday, March 4, 1968.He remembers it well.
'It was a milestone in my career. Prince Gin was a tough old horse and although I'd had a fair bit of success with him, that day the ground was firm and he didn't like the going.'
Ron rode as an amateur, winning thirteen races in his first season and finishing third in the amateurs' table.
Eighteen months later, he turned professional, eventually finishing his career having ridden some 130 winners.
These included wins in the Rhymney Breweries Chase, Fred Withington Chase & Mildmay of Flete Cup.
He was apprenticed to Captain T. A. Forster and, in his best season (numerically) rode 21 winners (1965-66).
He regarded Happy Spring as the best horse ridden.
Before riding under National Hunt Rules, he had seven point-to-point wins (and ten seconds) to his name. His first winner under these rules had come on Perquisite at Jersey (where Ron was born) in August, 1956.
In 1960 he became assistant trainer to T. H. Yates. When Yates died, Ron took over for a couple of months, sending out seven winners.
He then trained under his own steam.
The best horse he trained was Holocaust, for which he paid 3,100 guineas at the December Sales on behalf of Lord Howard de Walden.
Ron, who lived at Paddocks End, Childrey, Wantage, was born on July 13, 1938.
On June 13, 1967, he married Rosalind Waugh.
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