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29. Aug. 2006 - Champion trainer Nicholson dies at 67 |
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David Nicholson, a two-time champion trainer after a successful career as a jockey, has died, his nephew said Monday. He was 67. There was no immediate detail on the cause of death Sunday, but nephew James Fanshawe said Nicholson had been having chest pains and died on the way back from the hospital.Nicholson received his training license in 1968 and retired in 1999. He was champion trainer in 1993-94 and again the following year. Nicknamed "The Duke," he had winners as a trainer in Charter Party in the 1988 Cheltenham Gold Cup and Barton Bank at the King George VI Chase in 1993. Another horse, Moorcroft Boy, won the Scottish National in 1996 after breaking three neck vertebrae two years earlier. As a rider, Nicholson rode more than 600 winners in a 20-year career starting in 1951. He won the 1967 Whitbread Gold Cup on Mill House. |
