The former managers, who were in opposing dugouts 44 times, traded blows at the track on Friday.

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.