Legendary Queensland racehorse trainer Jim Atkins has died at the age of 94.Atkins began training in 1936 and still had a small team at Toowoomba including Oscar The Great who ran a close third in the Country Cup at Eagle Farm on Saturday.He won five Brisbane premierships and won more than 3000 races during his career.An inaugural member of the Queensland Racing Hall of Fame, Atkins is among the nominees being considered for inclusion in the Australian racing Hall Of Fame next month.In an interv

Legendary Queensland racehorse trainer Jim Atkins has died at the age of 94.

Atkins began training in 1936 and still had a small team at Toowoomba including Oscar The Great who ran a close third in the Country Cup at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

He won five Brisbane premierships and won more than 3000 races during his career.

An inaugural member of the Queensland Racing Hall of Fame, Atkins is among the nominees being considered for inclusion in the Australian racing Hall Of Fame next month.

In an interview last month, Atkins named Dalrello as the best horse he had trained.

"He was a champion galloper and he was hard to beat over a mile at Randwick," Atkins told Sydney's Sky Sports Radio.

"He was a magnificent horse, he could do anything. He was just a special horse."

Dalrello won the 1975 Doncaster Handicap and George Ryder Stakes and came back to Sydney to win the All-Aged Stakes the following two years.

Among the other stars in his stable were stayers Grey Affair and Just Now as well as Prince Ruling, runner-up to Kingston Town in the 1980 Cox Plate.

Atkins was born in Grafton in the northern rivers region of NSW and took over a team of horses when his trainer father died in 1936.

He moved to Brisbane and later to Toowoomba where he was based until his death on Sunday morning.