28/3/1985 I led up Lawnswood Miss Whitbread Pale Ale Handicap Hurdle
28/3/1985
I led up Lawnswood Miss
Whitbread Pale Ale Handicap Hurdle
Liverpool Aintree Racecourse
Finished 19th / 21 ran
28/3/1985
I led up Lawnswood Miss
Whitbread Pale Ale Handicap Hurdle
Liverpool Aintree Racecourse
Finished 19th / 21 ran
25/3/1988 I rode Baluchi 9/2 Aston Handicap Chase Ludlow Racecourse Finished 1st / 9 ran As I got legged up on Baluchi in the paddock the trainer said to me “If you don’t win don’t come f?cking back” 😉
10/5/1990 Freddy Dixon Memorial Trophy Handicap Chase at Uttoxeter Racecourse I rode Ardent Spy 12/1 Finished 1st / 6 ran When we won this race Ardent Spy was 13 years old and it had been 6 years since his previous victory and to put it bluntly, if the horse hadn’t had training problems when he…
Viking Flagship 1995 Racing Plates, which he wore in 3 different races The Game Spirit Chase at Newbury when he fell, the Emblem Chase at Kempton finished 2nd and the Queen Mother Champion Chase which he won. There was only a fortnight between each race. He also trained in them between the Game Spirit and…
29/3/1989 I rode Aldro 20/1 Newland Handicap Chase Worcester Racecourse Finished 5th / 5 ran
Monday September 10th 1984 was the day I started working for David Nicholson “The Duke” at Cotswold House Racing Stables, Condicote… my mum and dad got me down there for 6.30am and the horse I rode out first lot was Broadheath (moved to David Barons later in the season) and we did roadwork around a…
I started working full-time for racehorse trainer David “The Duke” Nicholson (as Nicholson was known) on September 10, 1984. I remember well the very first horse I rode out for him “my 1st lot” was horse called Broadheath (round the roads), who two years later won the Hennessy Gold Cup for David Barons. Horses I…