TDN Podcast

You can knock him down but you can never knock him out. Gary Stevens, having battled Father Time and numerous injuries, seems to always find his way back to the heights of his profession. Now recovering from hip replacement surgery, is there another chapter to Stevens’s career as a jockey? We’ll find as Stevens is this week’s guest on the Thoroughbred Daily News podcast.

As one of the original “Dumb Ass Partners,” Perry Martin has been there from the beginning with California Chrome  and he will be there at the end. Now part of the ownership team with Taylor Made, Martin will bid adieu to one of the best and most charismatic horses of our times when California Chrome says goodbye in the Jan. 28 Pegasus World Cup. Martin is our guest on this week’s Thoroughbred Daily News podcast.

From his writing to his railing against drug trainers to his speed figures, which revolutionized handicapping, Andy Beyer’s impact on the sport is immeasurable. He is semi-retired now, but he still has plenty to say about racing. Beyer is this week’s guest on the Thoroughbred Daily News podcast.

Just 24 when he took over as the head man at Claiborne, Walker Hancock not only understands and appreciates the Claiborne tradition, but he is the right age to lead the iconic breeding and racing operation into a future that is filled with new ideas, new concepts and new challenges. Now 27, Hancock has already made his mark by bringing the stallions Runhappy and Ironicus to Claiborne for the 2017 breeding season. In this week’s TDN podcast, Bill Finley touches base with one of racing’s brightest young leaders.

Chef Bobby Flay takes over the interviewing duties this week when he hosts Sol Kumin in his Manhattan studios. Kumin, the 41-year-old hedge fund manager, has been involved in horse racing for just over two years, enjoying unprecedented success. But most of all, he’s having the time of his life.

Always a top trainer, Mark Casse has emerged as one of the major forces in racing this year. He has continued to dominate Canadian racing, he took Tepin over to Royal Ascot to win the Grade I Queen Anne Stakes and he won the Grade I Breeders’ Cup Juvenile with Classic Empire, next year’s Derby favorite. All the while, he’s done so while having to deal with the loss of his father, Norman, who died earlier this year. This week on the Thoroughbred Daily News podcast, we’ll catch up with one of the hottest trainers in the sport.

For the past three years, no trainer in America has won more races than Karl Broberg. He has been described as `the most driven man in horse racing’ with an insatiable appetite for success. But Broberg’s 2016 took a tragic turn when his wife Samantha was declared lost at sea after falling overboard from a cruise ship in May. This week, Broberg talks about putting his life back together and raising his four children after the tragedy.

Mike Smith has been one of the nation’s top jockeys for 20 years, but it has been in the Breeders’ Cup where he has truly made his mark. The all-time winningest Breeders’ Cup rider ever, he has also been responsible for some of its most dramatic moments, with thrilling wins, and heartbreakingly close losses. Those tales and more in this week’s TDN podcast with the man who is perhaps racing’s most likeable jockey.

It’s not a stretch to say that Tom Durkin forever changed racecalling in America with his meticulous preparation and colorful, detailed race calls. Retired since 2014, he now fills his time with stage acting, travel and more. We caught up with the always-entertaining Durkin on Breeders’ Cup Day, 2016.

Aidan O’Brien achieved an historic feat when his charges ran 1-2-3 in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Chantilly October 2. But that was only one of the many remarkable successes he has achieved in 2016. We caught up with him at Ballydoyle to talk about his record-breaking year, and that remarkable stallion, Galileo.