Jessica Harrington driven by desire to scale different peaks
Jessica Harrington has always been impatient about moving forward. Picture: Lorraine O'Sullivan/PA
The kitchen in Commonstown Stud is rippling with hilarity as Jessica Harrington recounts giving Barry Geraghty what Australians would term a ‘spray’ for not making the running on Rock The World in a novice chase in Galway, after she had told him to do so.
Geraghty, a long-time associate of Harrington’s, was a year into his job as first jockey to her close friend Nicky Henderson. He knew the score and had to sit and suffer through the public berating because he had come in second on the odds-on favourite. Harrington recalls breaking into a smile by the time they had reached the parade ring, drawing a line under the dressing down by remarking to Geraghty that it was probably his first bollocking in a while, his boss at Seven Barrows never being known for dishing them out.
