Charlie Lister awarded the OBE in the New Year’s Honours List
Charlie Lister has been selected for being commended in the New Year’s Honours List for the Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE or OBE). The highly influential, illustrious and successful trainer is the most famous for winning the Greyhound Derby
six times between the years 1997 and 2011.
There might be a title or an honour that Charlie Lister has not been awarded with throughout the years, but the OBE can be considered as that icing on the cake.
Lister belongs from Newark in Nottinghamshire, and much-deservedly becomes part of the OBE, being a prized asset to show off for the British.
"I've had a good year with the finals we've won but I never dreamed I'd get anything like this - it's unbelievable”, he said.
Winning the Greyhound Derby at Wimbledon for a record sixth time and then being nominated for the New Year’s Honours List has been without a doubt, personal milestones for him, earned through undivided devotion and dedication to his field of work.
Despite all this, the invitation seemed to be a joke or prank for him which he did not realise until he received yet another letter that esteemed him.
"I thought it was a bit of a wind-up when I first heard about it but it's good for me and it's good for greyhound racing”.
“I thought it was a wind-up when I got the first letter and I think I chucked it in the bin,” revealed Lister, “but then I got another and realised it was serious”.
Charlie Lister has been a pioneer of greyhound training. The trainers standing by his side today as the candidates for the Trainers’ Championship 2011 were trained and mentored by Charlie Lister himself.
Names like Jim Daly and Michael Harris have also been under the guidance of the trainer of trainers.
Landmarks such as winning fourteen other ‘Classic’ victories besides the Greyhound Derby and forty-six other major competition successes, sets his polished and highly refined profile apart from all the other trainers.
Even in the wake of his declining years, he has yet again gifted the greyhound industry with another valuable contribution by writing a book “Charlie Lister on Greyhounds” in which he has tried his best to sum up his skills, talent and expertise when it
comes to training the hounds.
With an added feather in his cap, we are yet to see his endeavors in the year 2012.
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