Sir Alex Ferguson and Harry Redknapp were in opposing dugouts 44 times during their long careers in football management and they were trading blows again in a different sporting arena on Friday as three of the seven contests were won by horses in their racing colours.
The bare scoreline at the end of the day was 2-1 in Ferguson’s favour, thanks to a short-priced double in the opening two races with Regent’s Stroll and Kalif Du Berlais. It was Redknapp, though, who picked up the most valuable prize of the day, earning nearly £43,000 thanks to an impressive success by The Jukebox Man in the feature event, the Grade Two John Francome Novice Chase, and the six-year-old could now step up to Grade One company at Kempton on Boxing Day.
