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INSIDER
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我相信在这个世界的每一个人，无论他是从事纯血赛马或其他相关领域，一定有一个人对他们影响至深；这
个人或许是第一位带他走入马房，让他和马进行了人生的第一次接触，让他得以轻抚幼驹的鬃毛，或骑在马
背上驰骋的难忘经验。对我来说，那个人是一个名字叫温斯顿·特里穆的男人。
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文 / 克里斯蒂·贝纳蒂斯 BY CHRISTIE DEBERNARDIS
Everyone in the horse industry, racing or otherwise,
can name that one person who started it all for
them. The person who let them pet their pony, or sat
them on a horse for the first time, or gave them their initial My father brought me to the barn from the time I was old
racetrack experience. For me, that person was a man named
Winston Trim.
My father met Winston 32 years ago when he went
horseback riding at the Trim family ranch while on vacation
in St Lucia, an Eastern Caribbean island located in between
Martinique, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Barbados.
At the time, Winston was just 18 and my father was 36, but
they bonded immediately.
After watching Winston gallop down the beach, standing
up on his horse’s back with no saddle, my father insisted
Winston come back to New York with him. He recognised
his talent and wanted to “manage” him.
A few weeks later. Winston called and said he had arrived in
Brooklyn and the rest, as they say, is history. My father got
Winston, who had grown up around horses, a job galloping
for his long-time friend and veteran trainer Robert Barbara
at Belmont Park.
Winston and my father became the best of friends, brothers
really, which made him an uncle to me. It was Winston
who first got me involved with horses by introducing my
father to a Thoroughbred/Quarter Horse cross named
Thunderbolt, who my father decided to buy after the horse
ran him into a tree and broke his thumb.
The spirited chestnut only increased the bond between the
two friends, taking them on the ride of their lives…literally. was as equally innovative and was not afraid to dream as big
Little did Winston know at the time that by putting that
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horse in my father’s life, he would chart the entire course
of my life.
enough to hold up my own head, and the horse most thought
was crazy, was a saint when I was on his back. Winston helped
my father nurture my love of horses and, eventually racing. It is
because of his influence, on both my father and myself, that I’m
now an accomplished equestrian with a wonderful chestnut
horse of my own and a career as a turf writer.
Unfortunately, Winston’s life was cut tragically short March 26
when he was killed in a motorcycle accident just months after his
50th birthday. He leaves behind three children, a loving family
and friends who will never be quite the same without him.
I’m sharing this story in the TDN because Winston’s
influence and significance extends far beyond my own
personal experience. His impact will soon be felt in the
international racing community, thanks to Teo Ah Khing
and the China Horse Club.
One of the first things Winston said to my father when they
met on that fateful day 32 years ago, was that St Lucia needed
horse racing and he was going to figure out how to bring it to
the country. If you knew Winston, you knew he was a man
that was truly larger than life and when he set his mind to
something, he would not stop until he made it happen.
Winston did not have any higher education or fancy
accolades, but he had spent his life studying horses, was
a hard worker and the most determined man I had ever
known. It took him three decades, but he found a man who
as he did. That man was Teo Ah Khing.