Training legend Dick Hern has died, aged 81.
Hern started training in 1957 and handled some of the greatest racehorses of the modern era, including the incomparable Brigadier Gerard, who beat Mill Reef in the 1971 2000 Guineas.
He won 17 Classics during his career with the likes of Dunfermline for The Queen, who landed the Oaks and St Leger in Silver Jubilee year of 1977.
The Queen honoured Hern with the CVO in 1980.
The trainer was confined to a wheelchair after breaking his neck in a hunting accident in 1984 and he underwent major heart surgery in 1988, yet a year later produced one of his finest hours when he saddled Nashwan to win the 2000 Guineas, Derby, Eclipse and King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes.
He retired from the training ranks at the end of the 1997 season.
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