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They were
easy to spot. They were young men with short hair, wearing a suit and tie and
well-polished shoes, they were quiet, polite, dutiful and keen. If these clues
didn't give them away there was a surer method – you'd usually find them
in the winner's enclosure.
They were
Frenchie Nicholson's boys, a group of apprentice Flat jockeys almost without
parallel in racing, their manifold success during the 1960s and 1970s an
enduring testament to the man who nurtured their talent from raw novice to
Classic winner. His most notable graduates were Pat Eddery, Tony Murray, Paul
Cook, Walter Swinburn, Richard Fox and Ian Johnson. Nicholson gave them a start
in life, held the ladder steady while they began the climb to the top.
Herbert
'Frenchie' Nicholson was born 100 years ago last month. He was given the
nickname of 'Little Frenchie' by the lads at Epsom trainer Stanley Wootton's
academy, who noticed he was wearing a French raincoat when he arrived there as
a teenager after working in France. The nickname stuck, and so did the lessons
he learned from Wootton, whose reputation as a producer of jockeys exceeded
even that of Nicholson 40 years later.
Those who
remember him give near-identical knee-jerk responses – a great man, a
tough man, a hard taskmaster, pretty stern, very strict – but as the
initial jolt to the memory subsides the recollections become suffused with
warmth. Nicholson may have been a disciplinarian who expected his apprentices to
share his sturdy work ethic, but he had their best interests at heart and their
gratitude is as great a legacy as is their success.
Before
Nicholson became a mentor of young jockeys he was himself a jump jockey, and a
good one. He won the 1942 Cheltenham Gold Cup on Medoc and the 1936 Champion
Hurdle on Victor Norman, although neither horse is remembered as particularly
noteworthy these days. By far the best horse Nicholson rode was the great
Golden Miller, although the association came towards the end of the horse's
unparalleled career and their three wins together were gained in minor company.
Nicholson
displayed all the fortitude and foolhardiness of the modern jump jockey –
he had broken his leg three months before that Champion Hurdle success, and the
ride on Victor Norman was his first one back. The injury had not healed
properly, though, and victory came with the postscript of a permanent limp.
Of the
three strings to his bow, Nicholson's training career was perhaps the least
notable. It was initially hamstrung by the combination of riding and training,
and although he had occasional stars such as Aintree perennial Irish Lizard and
Fighting Kate, life as a trainer of horses soon became secondary to life as a
trainer of jockeys.
"The
two-legged variety are a lot easier to train," he once told a journalist.
"They cost less to keep, you don't have to feed them, and they earn you a
lot more money."
'Politeness
comes first'
The shift
in emphasis was prompted by the death in 1960 of leading owner and leading
eccentric Dorothy Paget, who owned all but six horses in the Prestbury yard.
The late David Nicholson, eldest son of Frenchie and later champion trainer,
illustrated the situation in his autobiography The Duke.
"My
parents were very concerned about the future," he wrote. "They knew
they would have to give up training racehorses or quickly find another source
of income. Unbeknownst to them, salvation was at hand."
Paul Cook,
who arrived at the yard in the spring of 1960, was the first of Nicholson's
apprentices and one of the finest. In the space of five years Nicholson
transformed Cook from a schoolboy who had never sat on a horse into a dual
champion apprentice. It was the first flowering of the methods that would bear
fruit time and time again, described memorably in The Duke.
"I am
strict. Damn strict but always fair. Discipline is the main thing, without that
the boys are nothing. Manners are crucial. Politeness comes first," said
Frenchie.
It was the
credo impressed upon him by Wootton, a martinet who by all accounts tended to
favour the iron fist without recourse to the velvet glove. However, Nicholson
had more about him than his old mentor. Hard without being harsh, gruff without
being grim, a disciplinarian without being a slavedriver, Nicholson brought all
his consummate experience to bear on his apprentices while leavening the
experience with a twinkly-eyed boyishness that shone through his no-nonsense
demeanour.
"The
first words he ever said to me were 'get your hair cut'," says Swinburn.
"Yet those words were accompanied by a wink. Did I get my hair cut? I most
certainly did."
Nicholson
endeavoured not only to make jockeys of his boys but to make well-rounded
people of them too. Dinah Nicholson, David's wife, saw the results at first
hand.
"He
liked to see people doing it right," she says. "He was very keen that
the apprentices dressed right, acted properly.
"He
taught them to write and say thank you to an owner for a ride – he saw it
as part of helping them grow up the right way. Yes, he was strict, but in the
way of a father figure. It was a happy yard, and if any of the boys had a
problem they knew they could go and see him or his wife Diana."
Journalist Brough Scott:
"He loved to pass on his accumulated wisdom, he loved to teach"
Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos)
Brough
Scott was not a Nicholson apprentice but cut his teeth as an amateur at the
yard, and remembers his old mentor as an inspiration, a coach par excellence.
"He
loved to pass on his accumulated wisdom, he loved to teach, he was supportive,
he understood," Scott says.
"It
was a very exciting time for me and the feeling was always that he shared that
excitement, which is a fantastically involving thing for young people. He was a
natural coach who had a really good idea of the basic orthodoxy of riding, upon
which the rider was free to develop his ability.
"And
his bark was much worse than his bite. There was often a twinkle in his eye and
he could be very boyish – and he was fond of the phrase 'the devil makes
work for idle hands'."
Nicholson
possessed a startling work ethic that he wasted little time in instilling in
his charges. In The Duke, David Nicholson remembers that " . . . he
did not like being idle. If he had a spare afternoon, he would go out for a
couple of hours cutting down weeds around the schooling fences or scything
nettles". It was a regime his boys were to become well accustomed to.
"We'd
start early and finish the morning at around 1pm," says Eddery, laughter
in his voice. "Then he'd have us back in his garden for a couple of hours
before evening stables - lifting stones, cutting thistles, picking fruit. You
didn't get a lot of time to yourself.
Pat Eddery: "There was the
odd kick up the backside, of course, and sometimes you'd be scared of him, but
he was a good man"
Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos)
"But
it was good for us to work like that – he set us a good example and we
respected him for it. There was the odd kick up the backside, of course, and
sometimes you'd be scared of him, but he was a good man."
The
stories are legion. Michael Dickinson arrived at the yard as a "very green
17-year-old amateur" and had to adapt quickly to the Nicholson doctrine.
"It
was quite a culture shock for me and I thought I was going to be fired three
times in the first week, but I stuck at it," Dickinson says.
"Sometimes
we would go to the top of Cleeve Hill and cut gorse, tie it into bundles and
take them down to make them into hurdles. However, Frenchie was the only one
who had gloves and the rest of us used to get covered in thorns.
"I
noticed he used to muck out his pony each morning, which I felt was
inappropriate for 'The Master', so I used to arrive at work half an hour before
all the other lads and mucked out his pony for him – that way I earned a
few precious brownie points."
Swinburn
did his time picking up stones too, as did Fred Messer, who did his five years
at the same time as Tony Murray and Eddery, and adapted to the regime so well
he later had no trouble working for Ryan Price, another master of the
old-school education.
"I
really appreciated it," says Messer. "You got out what you put in.
You had to graft but you got on, and I enjoyed working for him. I always tried
to be there first in the morning because I wanted to work, I felt myself
improving, felt myself getting somewhere thanks to Frenchie.
"I
rode Cullen to win the Great Met – my first winner – and the owners
were pleased and invited me to their box for a glass of champagne. Frenchie was
there too – although he never drank at the races – and he just said
to me, 'Boy, what are you doing? Get yourself back downstairs, you might pick
up a spare ride'."
There were
kindnesses too, no doubt gruffly administered but heartfelt nonetheless. Chris
Middleton, a ten-year veteran at the yard, well remembers Nicholson's
generosity.
"If
he could help you out, he did," he says. "He paid for me and my wife
Veronica to go to Jersey for our honeymoon. It was his wedding present to
us – it would have been Tewkesbury otherwise."
Michael Dickinson: "It was
quite a culture shock for me and I thought I was going to be fired three times
in the first week, but I stuck at it"
Edward Whitaker
Nicholson's
thorough grounding meant that not only did he expect his apprentices to behave
out of the saddle, he expected them to look the part during a race. Scott says
that even going down to the start you could always spot a Nicholson boy for his
style, and it was the same coming back.
"It
was all hands and heels," says Messer. "Woe betide if you picked up
your stick; he told you to push and kick until you were past the post.
"Other
trainers knew that if you worked for Frenchie you could do the job properly,
and we all picked up lots of outside rides as a result."
Frenchie's
wife Diana played almost as vital a role as her husband in the boys' education.
David's brother Richard remembers that she always offered an apprentice having
his first ride half a crown for every horse he beat home, a huge encouragement
for a youngster on just ten shillings a week. Diana also clocked up many
thousands of miles driving apprentices to race meetings – Frenchie didn't
like to drive – and walked the course with each one.
"Diana
used to drive and Frenchie sat in the passenger seat," says Swinburn.
"Now and again he'd turn his head and say 'where are you drawn today?' or
'what's the ground like?', little things to make sure you were on the ball, had
done your homework."
The results
spoke for themselves.
Cook,
Eddery and Murray were champion apprentices, and of course Eddery went on to
enjoy a glittering career. David Nicholson was moulded into a fine jockey and
champion trainer. His brother Richard, at hand with statistics, reckons his
father took on around 50 apprentices between 1961 and 1979, with those 50
riding more than a thousand winners between them before graduating to the
senior ranks.
The
Nicholson legacy
Perhaps
the greatest example of Nicholson's influence came in the 1982 Derby, when
three of his old boys – Eddery on Golden Fleece, Cook on Touching Wood and
Murray on Silver Hawk – filled the first three places at Epsom.
That is
one of Nicholson's legacies, the other is in the hearts and minds of those he
taught. "He was a great man to be around, I have nothing but good memories
of my time there," says Swinburn.
"If I
had my time again I'd go straight back there," says Messer, and then there
is Dickinson's "I have only praise, admiration and gratitude for the year
I spent with Frenchie", Eddery's simple "he made me what I am",
and Scott's "I wouldn't have got anywhere at all without my time at
Frenchie's".
Now and
again Frenchie Nicholson was heard to say of his boys: "They arrived on
bicycles and left in Rolls-Royces." Richer in that respect, certainly, yet
also enriched in so many other ways.
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