Working as a Stable Lad in Racing
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…