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<br>Nicky Richards [reached](https://www.cdoportugal.pt/servicos/header_servicos_apoio_internacionalizacao/) a significant [landmark](https://maatwerkwiki.nl/index.php?title=The_BET_9Ja_Promo_Code_For_2026_Is_YOHAIG) when Jehol De [Thaix offered](https://forum.messiah93.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=21350) him the 1,000 th winner of his career in the opener at [Newcastle](https://classifieds.ocala-news.com/author/wiley00154) on Tuesday.<br>
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<br>The 5-2 possibility overcame some questionable leaping to hold back Nosy Neighbour in the 2m6[f amateur](http://47.108.156.2513000/michellhutcher) handicap difficulty under Danny McMenamin<br>
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<br>The Cumbria-based handler had actually been stuck on 999 winners for 18 days because Jamesieconn scored at Doncaster on March 13 since when he had saddled 18 runners.<br>
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<br>His last three [runners](https://banckimoveis.com.br/agent/demetriasturde/) had actually been up and he said: "It's great to finally get the monkey off my back and get to the 1,000 as we have actually waited long enough.<br>
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<br>McMenamin informed Sky Sports Racing: "It's an honour and an [advantage](http://129.154.52.11820000/ysadevin266027) to [ride Nicky's](http://39.108.209.1793000/odessadown660) 1,000 winner. I have actually been with him from the start and its an excellent achievement. Nicky got a letter this early morning from somebody [congratulating](https://rudissecuriteprivee.fr/10-key-steps-to-launching-a-successful-startup/) him on reaching the 1,000 which was a bit early but I said to him that we 'd get it today."<br>
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<br>Richards rapidly proceeded to 1,001 winners later on the card when Smokeringinthedark landed the 2m4 1/2 f handicap difficulty to provide him a double and McMenamin a treble as the jockey also won the 2m7 1/2 f novice handicap chase on Aill Dubh.<br>
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<br>He has actually been training considering that 1998, when he took control of the licence on the death of his dual Grand National-winning father Gordon.<br>
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<br>His first winner came at Carlisle, where he took a two-runner race with Better Times Ahead - a chaser who had actually formerly led Gordon Richards' funeral cortege. His most prolific season was 2006-07, when he won 64 races, including 2 Grade ones with elite chaser Monet's Garden.<br>
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<br>Turpin Green completed third in the Gold Cup for him that season and other excellent horses he has actually trained include Scottish Grand National winner Takingrisks, dual Grade 1 scorer Simply Ned and Anglers Crag, who landed the Eider Chase at Newcastle last month.<br>
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<br>Three of the best Nicky Richards horses<br>
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<br>Monet's Garden<br>
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<br>This dashing grey was not simply one of Nicky Richards' biggest horses but likewise one of the very best chasers trained in the north this century.<br>
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<br>He was an excellent winner of the Grade 1 Ascot Chase in 2007 and 2010 and the Peterborough Chase at Huntingdon in 2008, but it was his exploits at Aintree that truly made his name.<br>
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<br>Monet's Garden won there five times in overall, taking the Old Roan Chase and Melling Chase twice each. Those were amongst 17 wins for a horse who made ₤ 683,000 and has a bar named in his honour at Carlisle.<br>
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<br>Simply Ned<br>
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<br>The elite two-mile chaser won 8 times in Britain however his 2 finest days can be found in Ireland.<br>
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<br>He was obstructed on the run-in when a close second in a Grade 1 race at Leopardstown's Christmas meeting in 2017 and awarded the race at a questions. But he required no aid from the stewards 12 months later when he took the exact same race completely on benefit, leading close home under Mark Walsh.<br>
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<br>Takingrisks<br>
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<br>Richards has yet to emulate his daddy by winning the Grand National but he landed the Scottish version with a 25-1 shot who survived a bad error at the very first fence to score by a decisive four lengths at Ayr in 2019.<br>
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<br>The doughty stayer also took the Rehearsal Chase at Newcastle that year and was nursed back to form to spring a 40-1 surprise in the Great Yorkshire Chase at the age of 12 at Doncaster in 2021.<br>
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<br>Nicky Richards' 1,000 wins as fitness instructor:<br>
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<br>986 British dives<br>
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<br>11 British Flat<br>
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<br>3 Irish jumps<br>
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<br>Nicky Richards CV<br>
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<br>Full name Nicholas Gordon Richards<br>
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<br>Born February 25, 1956<br>
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<br>Father Gordon Richards (1930-98), fitness instructor of Titus Oates, Lucius, Hallo Dandy, One Man<br>
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<br>Career as amateur rider 39 wins 1971-75; finest winners The Spaniard (Fred Withington Chase), Titus Oates, Canadius (Princess Royal Hurdle); champion amateur on Flat 1973 (5 wins)<br>
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<br>Assistant to Gordon Richards, Greystoke, near Penrith, Cumbria<br>
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<br>Stables as fitness instructor Rectory Farm, Greystoke, near Penrith, Cumbria given that 1998<br>
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<br>First winner as trainer Better Times Ahead (ridden by Tony Dobbin) handicap chase, Carlisle, October 9, 1998<br>
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<br>First big-race winner Feels Like Gold (1999 Becher Chase)<br>
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<br>Melling Chase winner Monet's Garden (2007 )<br>
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<br>Ascot Chase winner Monet's Garden (2007, 2010)<br>
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<br>Old Roan Chase winner Monet's Garden (2007 (beat Kauto Star), 2009, 2010)<br>
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<br>Peterborough Chase winner Monet's Garden (2008 )<br>
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<br>Paddy's Rewards Club Chase winner Simply Ned (2017, 2018)<br>
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<br>Scottish Grand National winner Takingrisks (2019 )<br>
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<br>Caspian Caviar (December) Gold Cup winner Guitar Pete (2017 )<br>
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<br>Sky Bet Chase winner Takingrisks (2021 )<br>
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<br>Fighting Fifth Hurdle winner The French Furze (2003 )<br>
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<br>Liverpool Hurdle winner Monet's Garden (2005 )<br>
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<br>Ascot Hurdle winner Monet's Garden (2004 )<br>
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<br>Scottish Champion Hurdle winner Noble Alan (2009 )<br>
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<br>Mersey Novices' Hurdle winner Turpin Green (2005 )<br>
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<br>Anniversary 4-Y-O Hurdle winner Faasel (2005 )<br>
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<br>Placed in Cheltenham Gold Cup Turpin Green (3rd to Kauto Star, 2007)<br>
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<br>Pattern-race treble Aintree, April 7, 2005 (Monet's Garden, Faasel, Turpin Green)<br>
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<br>Highest-rated horses (RPRs) 168 Turpin Green, 167 Monet's Garden, 164 Eduard, 164 Simply Ned, 157 Faasel<br>
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<br>Most respected Grade 1 winner Monet's Garden (3 )<br>
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<br>Grade 1 wins 6<br>
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<br>Highest position in fitness instructors' championship tenth in 2005-06 and 2006-07<br>
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<br>Most wins in a season 64 in 2006-07<br>
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<br>1,000 th winner Jehol De Thaix, Newcastle, March 31, 2026<br>
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<br>Compiled by John Randall<br>
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