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Article: His gift was to make you want to be on his team - his self-belief was inspirationally addictive.(Sports)
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- The Racing Post (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 21, 2006
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Byline: Brough Scott
MOST people called him The Duke. But there I was another title which he rather liked. It came from a caption to a photograph in the French racing magazine Le Weekend. It was some time in January 1968, when David and I and Stan Mellor were riding down at Cagnes Sur Mer because of foot and mouth disease up here.
The photograph showed The Duke towering above a bunch of diminutive French pilots, and the caption read: "David Nicholson - surement Le Plus Grand Jockey Du Monde" - "surely the greatest jockey in the world".
Ever after ...