EP:50 Lingfield, Haydock, Musselburgh & Hong Kong April 2, 2021 It’s a typically busy Easter weekend for racing with a mixture of flat and jump meetings spread across the UK and today trainer Warren Greatrex joins us as our special guest. City A.M. racing editor Bill Esdaile previews the best of this weekend’s action in the UK and Ireland, plus we hear from Wally Pyrah [...]
EP: 49 Doncaster, Newbury, Hong Kong & Dubai March 26, 2021 Trainer Richard Hughes joins us as our guest today as we look forward to the start of the new flat racing season at Doncaster where the Lincoln Handicap, run over the straight mile, is the feature race City A.M. racing editor Bill Esdaile previews this weekend’s global action in the UK and the Dubai World [...]
EP: 48 Hong Kong Derby Special March 19, 2021 The long-awaited Hong Kong Derby takes place at Sha Tin racecourse on Sunday and our expert Wally Pyrah joins us to discuss the chances of some of the big names taking part. Wally also previews two further races on the card where trainer John Size runs a couple of exciting future prospects. Hosted by Chris [...]
EP: 47 Cheltenham Festival Day 4 – Friday March 18, 2021 The final day of the Festival is many people’s highlight of the week with the youngsters kicking off the action in the Triumph Hurdle and the prestigious Gold Cup, run over three and a quarter miles the feature race of the day. We are joined today by jockey Richard Johnson who rides Native River in [...]
EP: 46 Cheltenham Festival Day 3 – Thursday March 17, 2021 Day 3 of the Festival sees the stayers in action with Paisley Park looking to regain his crown from 2019 for trainer Emma Lavelle. There is also the Grade 1 Ryanair Chase and a couple of very tasty handicaps to look forward to. Our guests today include top trainers Fergal O’Brien, Harry Whittington and David [...]
EP: 45 Cheltenham Festival Day 2 – Wednesday March 16, 2021 The second day of the Cheltenham Festival sees the Grade 1 Queen Mother Champion Chase, run over 2 miles as the feature, one of four grade 1 races on the card. We also see the return of former Cross Country champion Tiger Roll who takes on last year’s winner Easysland once again. Today our special [...]
EP:44 Cheltenham Festival Day 1 – Tuesday March 15, 2021 Tuesday is Day 1 of the Cheltenham Festival and the feature race is the Grade 1 Champion Hurdle, where the mare Epatante will try to hold on to her title after winning the race last year. City AM racing editor Bill Esdaile is joined by Fitzdares ambassador Cornelius Lysaght to set the scene for this [...]
EP: 43 Sandown & Hong Kong March 12, 2021 Only a few more days before the start of this year’s Cheltenham Festival. A new episode of The Punter Podcast will be available EVERY day of the Festival, starting on Monday, so please make sure you join us for four days of top class racing. Today, City A.M. racing editor Bill Esdaile previews Saturday’s card [...]
EP:42 Newbury, Kelso, Doncaster & Hong Kong March 5, 2021 It has been a very difficult week for racing with the emergence of horrendous footage of a trainer and jockey in Ireland showing an enormous lack of respect for horses in their care City AM racing editor Bill Esdaile discusses the implications of these images as well as the public’s response as racing looks to [...]
EP: 41 Kempton, Newcastle & Hong Kong February 26, 2021 We look forward to another great weekend of racing where Kempton stage no less than three Grade 2 races on Saturday. It’s the annual marathon Eider Chase at Newcastle with the usual strong field of contenders Trainer Caroline Bailey travels up from her Northamptonshire base to the north-east with her 11 year old Crosspark, who [...]
