Training Great Barry Hills Dies Aged 88

Barry Hills, who has died at the age of 88, was one of Britain's most successful, skilled and respected trainers, sending out winners in each of six decades from the 1960s onwards. He was trainer and friend to some of the sport's greatest patrons, most notably Robert Sangster. Son of a great horseman and father to four more, he built an empire and, moreover, he built it from scratch. Hills was born in April 1937 in Worcestershire, where his father Bill, a former jump jockey, was head lad to the...