Incredible!
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Following hot on the heels of his career-best eight winners in a day on Saturday, Paul Nicholls secured another landmark on Tuesday when Capitaine became the 3,000th winner of the trainer's career.
The seven-year-old landed the 2m½f handicap hurdle at Taunton under Harry Cobden, becoming Nicholls' 2,960th jumps winner in Britain, a figure supplemented by 11 British Flat successes, 25 in Irish jumps races and four over jumps in France.
"It really is something of a landmark to reach the 3,000 winners overall as it's something I could only dream about in the early '90s when I first started training in Devon," said a delighted Nicholls.
"The move to Paul Barber's Manor Farm yard in 1994 has proved pivotal in all the success we've had, and it's fantastic that he's a director at Taunton and here this afternoon.
PAUL NICHOLLS CAREER IN NUMBERS
3,000 winners
2,960 British jumps winners
11 British Flat winners
25 jumps winners in Ireland
4 jumps winners in France
120 Grade 1 wins
£3,646,511 best prize-money haul (2007-08)
171 best winners haul (2016-17)
10 champion trainer titles
4 Cheltenham Gold Cup wins
10 King George triumphs
1 Grand National success
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