There were champagne celebrations for Jack Berry at Redcar yesterday. He was presented with a bottle of champagne after landing the 1,500th winner of his training career.

Fittingly, it was a two-year-old who took him to the landmark, as Red Charger battled on well to take the Crow's Nest Restaurant Novice Median Auction Stakes.

"I had my first winner in a selling hurdle at Kelso and that's my 1,500th," Berry beamed.

Berry, 60, is best known today for his handling of two-year-olds. He set a record for the most juvenile winners in a season (63) in 1989 and broke it himself in each of the next two years.

The 90 two-year-old successes he enjoyed in 1991 played a large part in his recording the fastest century in British racing history - achieved on July 17th.

Berry's other forte is sprinters and he is quick to nominate as his favourite race the Ayr Gold Cup, which he won with So Careful in 1988.

And it was a sprinter, Ansellman, that gave him victory number 1,501 half an hour later after Red Charger's success when taking the W S Atkins Claiming Stakes.

But he started in racing as a jump jockey and rode 47 winners over the sticks in a 12-year riding career. And it was in the National Hunt game that he first made an impact after taking out a trainer's licence in 1969.

Off the mark with victory in a Kelso selling hurdle by Camasco, he soon became a force to be feared at a much higher level.

Richard Dunwoody gave up his rides at Killarney last night but hopes to be back in the saddle at Chepstow tomorrow..

The former British champion jockey aggravated an old shoulder injury last week.