In vision at Prestbury Park, it has been a busy week on the Nick Luck Daily podcast.
It has been a busy (well, even busier than usual!) week for the Nick Luck Daily podcast, whose team has been out and about at Cheltenham Racecourse not only during the four days of racing this week, but also on Monday, when there was no afternoon racing on track.
Trainers Gordon Elliott, Paul Nolan and Emmet Mullins were guests on Monday, as was Cheltenham’s clerk of the course Jon Pullin.
We’ve written up what Pullin told the podcast here.
On the morning of the Champion Hurdle, the Festival’s day one feature (and the week’s second feature, after Friday’s Gold Cup), Luck spoke to Willie Mullins, trainer of the eventual winner Lossiemouth, alongside Mullins’s assistant David Casey.
He also heard from Mark Walsh, currently number one jockey to influential owner JP McManus, who celebrated his 75th birthday on Tuesday, and fellow jockey Danny Mullins, who would ride Kopek Des Bordes to victory for his uncle Willie in the Arkle Trophy Novices’ Chase later in the day.
Luck also spoke to Matt Hall of Tattersalls, ahead of the Tattersalls Cheltenham Festival Sale, which unfurled in Cheltenham’s famous amphitheatrical winner’s enclosure after racing on Thursday.
Luck regularly checked in with equine artist Liz Armstrong at her base in the shopping village, and on Wednesday his trip to see her followed chats with Paul Townend, fresh from success on Lossiemouth, and trainers Gavin Cromwell and John Joseph ‘Shark’ Hanlon.
Away from Cheltenham on Wednesday, Luck kept up his continual journey around the bloodstock world with Weatherbys (who sponsored that afternoon’s Champion Bumper, run in memory of its late Sir Johnny Weatherby)
This week he linked up with Pippa Mickleburgh, a representative of Race Coast Sales in South Africa.
You can read what Mickleburgh told Luck here.
Jane Mangan and Dave ‘Newsboy’ Yates were Luck’s main guests out in the centre of the course on Thursday, and the trio had plenty to chew over.
Topics of discussion included allegations of racial abuse lodged by Irish amateur Declan Queally against Nico de Boinville, the pair having jostled at the start of Wednesday’s Turners Novices’ Hurdle.
There was also another chat with Willie Mullins and his assistant David Casey, as well as an interview with Mullins’s fellow Irish trainer Henry de Bromhead.
Friday’s episode was a chance to look back at the events on Thursday.
They had included reconciliation between Nico de Boinville and Declan Queally, who had accused de Boinville of racist abuse at the start of day two’s opener, as well as forthright views on the ground expressed by Willie Mullins and JP McManus.
Charlotte Greenway spoke to Patrick Mullins on Friday ahead of a fine book of rides on the closing card, and Ben Pauling (trainer of Gold Cup hopeful The Jukebox Man) joined by video link.
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