Edward Brown 'Ted' Dickson (1923-1996) was a United Kingdom

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. He was the UK champion trainer in 1977.

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Ted Dickson began his career working as a kennel boy for Norman Chambers at

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. In 1960 he took out a private trainers licence before joining

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in 1970. Dickson came to prominence in 1973 with a classic finalist when Sunny Gold reached the

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final while he was a trainer at Slough. Four years later he won the Laurels, with Greenfield Fox and Linacre won the

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. This culminated with him becoming the Greyhound Trainer of the Year. In 1978 and 1980 he won the

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, the only occasions that Slough had won the event. Further success came and he won the Trainers Championship twice in 1978 and 1980 respectively. He was based out of the Smoothfield Farm Kennels, off Winkfield Lane in

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. He joined

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from Slough in 1985. This brought more success when Jet Circle won the 1985

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. Ted's daughter Hazel Dickson became heavily involved in the day-to-day running of the kennels before Ted died in 1995 leaving the kennels to be run by Hazel. Hazel continued to impress for the next decade winning the

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and the

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but retired in 2000.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dickson, Ted 1923 births 1996 deaths British greyhound racing trainers