Ep 1113 - Round The Bend

Nick Luck Daily Podcast

Nick is joined today by the Racing Post's Lee Mottershead and the begin by discussing the unsurprising disqualification of Alphonse Le Grande from Saturday's Cesarewitch after his jockey Jamie Powell went over the permitted strike allowance. Then Nick gets the reaction to Brant Dunshea and asks why these sorts of decisions can't be made on race day. Then looking ahead to Champions Day at Ascot this weekend, James Fanshawe joins the show to discuss sprinter Kind of Blue and his strong ties to the the horses's bloodline before our latest visit to the sales in which Robert 'Choc' Thornton reflects on topping Day 2 of Book 2 with a Too Darn Hot filly and explains why this means so much to him and Apple Tree Stud. Finally looking further afield, we hear from Andrea Atzeni ahead of his ride in the Caulfield Cup and JA McGrath has our weekly update from Hong Kong.