Martin Pipe capped a record-breaking season when Doctor Green won the Silverton Pony Club Conditional Jockeys' Selling Handicap Hurdle at Exeter today.
It gave him 231 winners for 1999/2000, beating the previous best for a jumps campaign which he had set himself back in 1990/1.
This season has been special for Pipe, who has been tearing up the record books ever since he beat Michael Dickinson's mark of 120 winners in 1987/8.
Not only did he beat his own records for the fastest to 100 in November and to 200 in February.
But he has also overtaken Arthur Stephenson to become the winning-most trainer in British racing history, and earlier this year became the first man to train 3,000 winners in this country.
Major contributors to the tally this term have been Sweet Senorita, Round Robin and Mr Cool, who have won 21 races between them.
Pipe is assured of a 10th prize-money-determined championship, thanks to the exploits of big-race winners such as Carlovent, Copeland, Dark Stranger, Tresor de Mai and Wahiba Sands.
But the trainer's memories of 1999/2000 will not all be happy ones.
He lost Gloria Victis, who looked a sure-fire future star when running away with the Racing Post Chase at Kempton in February only to suffer fatal injuries in a fall in the Tote Cheltenham Gold Cup.
