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september 18 , 2007 1957 vienna , austria british , 1934 , 1935 , 1944 , 1946 , 1949 champion -rrb- trainer -lrb- 1927 , 1928 , 1932 princess stakes -lrb- 1927 , 1928 -rrb- champion stakes -lrb- 1928 of , 1929 , 1934 -rrb- jockey club stakes -lrb- 1934 wales -rrb- dewhurst stakes -lrb- 1935 -rrb- irish derby stakes -lrb- 's 1940 , 1948 , 1949 -rrb- stakes -lrb- 1927 -rrb- eclipse 1878 fairway , tehran , beam , mahmoud , bahram , migoli frank butters
 frank butters trainer
frank butters

frank joseph arthur butters -lrb- 1878 -- 1957 -rrb- was a racehorse trainer specialising in flat racing who trained in austria , italy and england in the first half of the 20th century .
he trained for two of the most successful owner-breeders in british racing at the time , lord derby and hh aga khan iii , and was british flat racing champion trainer on eight occasions .
frank butters was born in vienna , austria , in 1878 while his father joseph butters was training racehorses there .
he was educated in britain but returned to austria as an assistant to his father .
he was interned in austria during world war i and trained in italy after the war .
in 1926 he returned to britain to start a four-year contract as lord derby 's trainer at stanley house stables in newmarket in succession to george lambton .
he trained a number of classic winners for the earl and also trained for other owners , winning the epsom oaks in 1927 for the earl of durham .
in 1930 lord derby terminated butters ' employment but he set up as a public trainer and when the aga khan split with dick dawson , butters took over as his trainer .
he trained for the aga khan until forced to retire after a serious bicycle accident in 1949 .
in that period he trained nine classic winners for the aga khan including mahmoud , who won the 1936 epsom derby in a then-record time , and the unbeaten 1935 triple crown winner bahram .
he also trained the epsom oaks winner steady aim for sir alfred butt , plus three winners of the irish derby for the aga khan and won the prix de l'arc de triomphe with migoli in 1948 .
his win with migoli in the `` arc '' was the first for an english-trained horse since 1923 and there would not be another until 1971 .
he trained 1,019 winners in great britain and was champion trainer in 1927 , 1928 , 1932 , 1934 , 1935 , 1944 , 1946 and 1949 .
in 1934 he trained the winners of nine of the 28 races at royal ascot .
his brother , fred butters , was also a trainer and won the 1937 epsom derby with mid-day sun .
