Grand Nationwide-winning jockey Daryl Jacob will retire on Sunday, having triumphed on Impaire Et Passe within the Faugheen Novice Chase at Limerick on Saturday.
The 41-year-old Irishman clinched victory within the Grade One characteristic at Limerick on the Willie Mullins-trained 8-13 favorite for his long-standing retained house owners Simon Munir and Isaac Souede.
The success adopted a size injury-enforced absence for Jacob, who gained the 2012 Grand Nationwide on Neptune Collonges.
He stated a few months in the past this might be his last season within the saddle, however reasonably than ready till the tip of the present Nationwide Hunt marketing campaign, he’ll finish his profession on the final day of the Leopardstown Christmas assembly.
Jacob instructed Sportinglife.com: “It is the precise choice on the proper time. I’ve labored very exhausting to get again from damage this season and I knew I had some good alternatives this Christmas, together with within the Grade One.
“To trip Impaire Et Passe there to win the Grade One, will probably be very troublesome to beat that now and ending at Leopardstown, the place I gained my first Grade One, feels proper.
“I’ve all the time wished to retire on my phrases, driving good horses, and Impaire Et Passe has been one in every of our greatest horses. He is very particular to me.”
