Irish jockey recalls huge row with English trainer: 'We absolutely tore strips off each other'
"We absolutely tore strips off each other the whole way back in from the racecourse"
Daryl Jacob has recalled "a heated debate" with his former boss Paul Nicholls over a ride he gave a horse.
The Wexford jockey was on board Cedre Bleu when he finished second in the Mappin & Webb Silver Cup Handicap Chase at Ascot in 2013. Jacob believed he had given the horse "an absolute peach" of a ride as he went down by a neck to Houblon Des Obeaux.
However, Nicholls didn't agree with his assessment and made his feelings known.
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“Probably the biggest rollocking or argument I ever had was with Paul Nicholls," Jacob said on the Sporting Life Racing Podcast. "It was at Ascot on the Saturday before Christmas, Long Walk Hurdle day, and I rode a horse called Cedre Bleu.
"I finished second on him to Aidan Coleman on Houblon Des Obeaux and I promise you, I gave this horse an absolute peach! He was never a horse who wanted to win but I produced him at the right time to win the race and he just unfortunately didn’t want to go by.
"Paul came out and met me on the course and we absolutely tore strips off each other the whole way back in from the racecourse back into the second spot. In the end I literally walked away, went in, and flung my saddle straight at the valets, and hit my valet Ginge straight on the shoulder with an iron. That was a heated debate that one."
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