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Article: Obituary: Peter Scott
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 7, 1994
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David Peter Winstone Scott, journalist: born Speldhurst, Kent 28
April 1929; married 1960 Cecily Cousins (three sons); died 5 April
1994.
PETER SCOTT was the most unlikely member of the racing community
let alone of the racing press. Bespectacled, tall, thin, stooping,
unassumingly earnest yet charming and full of fun, he was known by
French trainers as "Le Professeur". Perhaps "Le Cure" might have
been more descriptive.
The son of a A5W.Horn in 1929 at the Kent farm where his parents
bred polo ponies. He was educated at Stowe, in Buckinghamshire,
which he adored, close to the little Buttermilk Stud, where his
aunt Mrs Leonard Scott bred the top-class winners Park Top, Luciano
and Precipice ...