'It's a beautiful day' - Jim Goldie celebrates landmark 1,000th winner

Jim Goldie, the man once turned down for a licence because his horses weren't good enough, sent out his 1,000th winner at Ayr on Saturday.

It came with Call Me Ginger, who landed a 6f handicap under Paul Mulrennan on the same track where Dawadar gave him his first victory in a 2m6f hurdle in October 1993. That horse was ridden by Fraser Perratt, who is now a racecourse judge and announced his landmark winner - after a photo-finish - nearly 29 years on.

"Good old Call Me Ginger, he must have read the script!" said Goldie, 66 and based at Uplawnmoor in Renfrewshire, 15 miles from Glasgow.

Jim Goldie: 'when I first started with a handful of horses you just try to work your way up'Credit: John Grossick (racingpost.com/photos)

"It's a beautiful day – my favourite racecourse and probably one of my favourite horses. It's obviously an achievement, a fair milestone. When I first started with a handful of horses you just try to work your way up.

"Paul and I have had a great run of it recently so it was good to have Paul get the job done."

Goldie was a rider good enough to win the point-to-point championship final at Sedgefield as a teenager and took over from his permit-holding father when he was hurt in a fall.

His efforts with the likes of Dawadar eventually persuaded the Jockey Club to give him a full licence in 1994 and he has now sent out 758 winners on the Flat and 242 over jumps.

Goldie's first top Flat horse was Orientor, a 12,000gns buy who won two Group races and sired the yard's money-spinning sprinter Jack Dexter, who earned over £430,000, as well as Call Me Ginger.

He took the Stewards' Cup with Hawkeyethenoo in 2012 and more recently has landed three Group 3 races with Euchen Glen and the Northumberland Plate with Nicholas T.

But Goldie says his proudest achievement was winning back-to-back Grand Sefton Chases over the Grand National fences at Aintree with Lampion Du Bost (2007) and Endless Power (2008).

"It's been a family concern from the word go," Goldie added. "My two boys have been able lieutenants, partners in the business. It's very much a team effort."

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