This Is Horse Racing

This Is Horse Racing episodes:

• 06.10.2019

  Jump jockey Michael Mitchell

  He's off to a fast start to the 2019 season with 15 wins through May to lead the standings, but there's plenty to Michael Mitchell's story including stops in his native England, Australia, New Zealand and now the United States.

  
• 04.27.2019

  Md. Hunt Cup: Women jockeys

  In 1971, Kathy Kusner broke through as the first woman to ride the Maryland Hunt Cup. Eight years later, came Toinette Neilson (then Jackson), then Joy Slater (a winner in 1980 and 1981), then Liz McKnight (in 1986). We talked...

  
• 04.22.2019

  Md. Hunt Cup: Buzz Hannum & Paddy Neilson

  We're talking Maryland Hunt Cup history with two of the best to ever win the great timber race, former jockeys Buzz Hannum and Paddy Neilson. Hannum won it twice on Morning Mac and once on the great Fort Devon. Neilson's...

  
• 03.25.2019

  Jonathan Sheppard, Part 2

  Our conversation with Hall of Fame trainer Jonathan Sheppard continues, with more on the great Flatterer, future game-changing stallion Storm Cat and others.

  
• 03.19.2019

  Jonathan Sheppard talks about his unparalleled training career. Part 1.

  Hall of Fame trainer Jonathan Sheppard has done about all there is to do in Thoroughbred racing – trained champions on the flat and over jumps, bred and owned major winners, been inducted into the Hall of Fame and on...

  
• 11.05.2018

  Guy Torsilieri talks jump racing, gambling and a big Christmas tree

  Guy Torsilieri is the co-chair of the Far Hills Races, president of the National Steeplechase Association and the man behind the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. If that's not enough to make you listen, you're in the wrong podcast.

  
• 10.25.2018

  Steve Hankin hopes to revolutionize U.S. steeplechase video product

  A Marylander who lives in California, Steve Hankin brings a diverse background in live sports video production to his new role with the National Steeplechase Association. His high-definition camera work hopes to set a new bar and open new opportunities...

  
• 08.07.2018

  Funding the future of jump racing

  The good work of the like-minded National Steeplechase Foundation and Temple Gwathmey Fund gets a boost as the organizations merge to create the Temple Gwathmey Steeplechase Foundation. Board members Emily Day and Charlie Fenwick discuss the future.

  
• 06.19.2018

  Catching up with trainer Neil Morris

  As far as we know, he's the only trainer ON EARTH to win races at 4 1/2 furlongs (at Charles Town) and 4 miles (in the Virginia Gold Cup) this year. Based in Virginia, English native Neil Morris is off...

  
• 06.18.2018

  Catching up with trainer Neil Morris

  As far as we know, he's the only trainer ON EARTH to win races at 4 1/2 furlongs (at Charles Town) and 4 miles (in the Virginia Gold Cup) this year. Based in Virginia, English native Neil Morris is off...

  
• 05.11.2018

  Jockey Jack Doyle

  Jump jockey Jack Doyle has ridden horses all his life, and made a career of it in Ireland and England. He moved to the United States in 2014 and has found a spot near the top of the standings and...

  
• 05.10.2018

  Jockey Jack Doyle

  Jump jockey Jack Doyle has ridden horses all his life, and made a career of it in Ireland and England. He moved to the United States in 2014 and has found a spot near the top of the standings and...

  
• 04.10.2018

  Talking Temple Gwathmey, National Steeplechase Foundation and more

  In this edition, we talk about Temple Gwathmey (the man) and the Temple Gwathmey (the race) with Ned and Temple Grassi, get an update on the National Steeplechase Foundation with Charlie Fenwick and check in on the Middleburg Spring Races with Doug...

  
• 01.19.2018

  NSA's Bill Gallo talks Eclipse Awards, 2018 season and more

  Bill Gallo started working at the National Steeplechase Association in 1977 and has seen the sport go through a variety of cycles. He talks about the competitive race for the 2017 Eclipse Award, takes a look ahead at the 2018...

  
• 01.19.2018

  NSA’s Bill Gallo talks Eclipse Awards, 2018 season and more

  Bill Gallo started working at the National Steeplechase Association in 1977 and has seen the sport go through a variety of cycles. He talks about the competitive race for the 2017 Eclipse Award, takes a look ahead at the 2018...

  
• 10.23.2017

  Talking Fair Hill with Terry Hasseltine & Ross Peddicord

  When it comes to horses, Fair Hill is home to plenty – racing, eventing, showing, fox hunting and more. The iconic Maryland property hosted its first races more than 80 years ago, and it's back in the news again with...

  
• 06.26.2017

  Jockey Hadden Frost talks about his life in racing

  Hadden Frost, whose father Jimmy Frost was a top jump jockey in the day, grew up in England riding ponies and took the experience all the way to careers on the flat, over jumps and in the show ring. He...

  
• 06.14.2017

  Trainer Richard Valentine

  You know him as the guy behind 2014 steeplechase champion Demonstrative and some other stars to come off Whitewood Farm in Virginia. He grew up in a family with little or no horse background, but dove in and now operates...

  
• 05.27.2017

  Jockey Sean McDermott talks Scorpiancer and more

  An experienced jockey in his native Ireland, Sean McDermott is in his third full American season and got off to a big start to 2017 with two major stakes wins aboad Scorpiancer. And to think he started out riding a...

  
• 05.26.2017

  Jockey Sean McDermott talks Scorpiancer and more

  An experienced jockey in his native Ireland, Sean McDermott is in his third full American season and got off to a big start to 2017 with two major stakes wins aboad Scorpiancer. And to think he started out riding a...

  
• 05.17.2017

  Champion owner Irv Naylor talks jump racing

  He's won six of the last seven National Steeplechase Association owners' championships, just missed passing $1 million in seasonal earnings in 2016, campaigned the last two steeplechase champions in Dawalan and Rawnaq, and started 2016 by retiring the Virginia Gold...

  
• 05.11.2017

  Ruby Walsh discusses Nichols Canyon

  It was all supposed to be more newsworthy and challenging and amazing, really, as Nichols Canyon bid for the historic $500,000 TVV Capital Challenge linking Cheltenham's Stayers Hurdle with the Iroquois Steeplechase. This interview happened before the horse was injured...

  
• 04.25.2017

  Trainer Joe Davies discusses Senior Senator

  Last year's Maryland Hunt Cup winner Senior Senator wasn't always a timber star. No, he used to be a badly behaved flat horse at Penn National who did nothing but drop jockeys and lose races. In advance of Saturday's Hunt Cup, trainer...

  
• 04.21.2017

  Jack Fisher talks Good Night Shirt, Tom Voss and the Hall of Fame

  Jack Fisher got his Horse of a Lifetime when Good Night Shirt showed up in 2005. The big, raw Maryland-bred’s meteoric career wound up one of the best ever with eight Grade 1 wins and more than $1 million in...

  
• 04.20.2017

  Jack Fisher talks Good Night Shirt, Tom Voss and the Hall of Fame

  Jack Fisher got his Horse of a Lifetime when Good Night Shirt showed up in 2005. The big, raw Maryland-bred’s meteoric career wound up one of the best ever with eight Grade 1 wins and more than $1 million in...

  
• 04.13.2017

  Talking racing with My Lady's Manor race chairman Turney McKnight

  Turney McKnight has been an owner, a trainer, an amateur jockey and more. He won the 1982 Maryland Hunt Cup aboard Tong, a horse bred by his mother June. In 1978, McKnight became chairman of the My Lady's Manor Races...

  
• 04.13.2017

  Talking racing with My Lady’s Manor race chairman Turney McKnight

  Turney McKnight has been an owner, a trainer, an amateur jockey and more. He won the 1982 Maryland Hunt Cup aboard Tong, a horse bred by his mother June. In 1978, McKnight became chairman of the My Lady's Manor Races...