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Winners played ‘life’s handicap’: Rolf Johnson tribute to Antony Winlaw – ‘with apologies to Kipling’

Antony Roger Sebastian de Winton Winlaw; most associates knew him as ‘Winlaw’ (time was when surnames were the norm as the upper crust’s form of address). To his long-standing mutual friends, myself and his handicapping cohort the late Martyn John Neville Stewart, Antony was forever ‘Winners’.

When his birth and baptism were announced in 1938 in The Times the ‘R’ was transposed with the ‘S’, spotted, luckily before the christening - otherwise he would have been forever ‘ARSE’.
Better check Winners’ obituaries, just in case.
He carried a ‘batting order’ his parlance for likes and dislikes -t...

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