A well earned winning double at Caulfield yesterday, via Last Gift and Road Trippin, both trained by Stephen Theodore, a grandson of legendary trainer, Bert Honeychurch.

Now rising 93 Bert Honeychurch was an institution to racing in the Riverina of New South Wales, where he trained at Berrigan.

I doubt if any horse ever died a maiden with Bert, he would take horses in all directions to make sure an owner had a winner and a picture on the wall.

Bert was an old Mentone boy, he moved to Bendigo with a handy horse in Rubontine, before settling in Berrigan.

Whilst he trained hundreds of winners he was a great mentor to budding young apprentices, Billy Cameron, Davey Heywood, Neil Sheldon, Geoff Duryea, and several others, they all lived in with him and his late wife Margaret.

He was a great trainer and a great master, while confined to a nursing home, he doesn’t miss a race when Stephen has a runner, you can bet he would be wearing a wide smile yesterday.