Top horse coach Paul Nicholls eyes new filly

Jilly Cooper elicited the assistance of Paul Nicholls for her e book Jump! and it isn’t onerous to see why — the love lifetime of the thrice-married horse coach is extra vibrant than that of any of the ‘bonkbuster’ writer’s characters.

I hear that Nicholls, 61, has break up up with Poppy Hemmings, the girlfriend three many years his junior.

And he is now stated to be going out with occasion rider, Nana Dalton, 40, who has been seen with him at varied race conferences over latest months.

‘It’s very acrimonious,’ one in every of Poppy’s mates claims.

Nicholls is the main National Hunt coach of his technology with greater than 2,000 victories, together with the 2012 Grand National and 4 Cheltenham Gold Cups.

Jilly Cooper elicited the assistance of Paul Nicholls for her e book Jump! and it isn’t onerous to see why — the love lifetime of the thrice-married horse coach is extra vibrant than that of any of the ‘bonkbuster’ writer’s characters

I hear that Nicholls, 61, has break up up with Poppy Hemmings, the girlfriend three many years his junior

One of his mates displays: ‘A leopard by no means adjustments its spots. Given that he trains 200 horses, I simply do not understand how he has the time for it.’

In March final 12 months, I disclosed that he was going out with Poppy, 31, a Somerset-born horsewoman.

Only shut mates knew that Nicholls, who was awarded an OBE for companies to horse racing in 2020, was courting her.

The earlier replace on his love life was that he was going out with Philippa Holland, a society jeweller 18 years his junior, in 2017.

Nicholls, who has three daughters, separated from his third spouse, Georgina, in 2016. He left his second spouse Bridget in 2004 and began stepping out with Georgie, whose marriage to jockey-turned racing pundit Luke Harvey had damaged down after solely 16 months.

Nicholls declines to remark.