The Irish Field Podcasts

Paddy Harnett talks about his dramatic win in the apprentice title race, and Mark Costello is joined by Anne Marie Duff to review the Breeders’ Cup, Down Royal and Curragh highlights before previewing some upcoming big races.

Mark Costello and Anne Marie Duff look ahead to the Breeders’ Cup in the company of US racing expert Sean Clancy. The team also review racing from Galway, Cheltenham, Wexford, Doncaster, Saint-Cloud and even Flemington. Plus Peter O’Reilly of the ITBA posts an update on the ITBA EXPO ’27.

Having been riding in Grade 1 company in New Jersey on Saturday night, jockey Danny Gilligan’s late flight home to partner Kings Hill, trained by his father Paul, in the JT McNamara Munster National proved extremely worthwhile on Sunday, when the talented grey ran out a decisive winner of the €100,000 Limerick feature.Victory in the BoyleSports-backed prize represented Danny’s first domestic winner for his dad, and he joins The Racing Edge Podcast (by The Irish Field) to discuss the major family success, as well as his ambitions for the National Hunt season ahead.Mark Boylan discusses a superb British Champions Day card in the company of Anne Marie Duff and Amy Lynam, who also weighs in on a strong week of trade at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sales. The team take an early look at this weekend’s Group 1 William Hill Futurity Trophy Stakes at Doncaster, a race with the potential to play a big part in deciding the British flat trainers’ championship.

In this week’s episode apprentice jockey Paddy McGettigan talks about his big race success on Alphonse Le Grande, Amy Lynam tells the stories behind the big money trades at Tattersalls, and Mark Costello and Anne Marie Duff review the Dewhurst and look ahead to Champions Day at Ascot

A spectacular display of pure class from Daryz is the only place to begin with this week’s episode of The Racing Edge Podcast, which features an interview with the Aga Khan Studs’ Irish studs manager Pat Downes to reflect on the now two-time Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner’s heroics.Mark Boylan is joined by Mark Costello and Anne Marie Duff to run through the major races from a stellar weekend at ParisLongchamp, including success for Irish connections with Green Empress, Amusingly and True Love.Ahead of a blockbuster clash in the Darley Dewhurst Stakes on Saturday, the team preview Saturday’s Group 1 feature, and each panelist nominates a horse to follow for listeners’ trackers.

Mark Costello, Anne Marie Duff and James Crispe dissect the action from the previous weekend at the Curragh and Newmarket before looking ahead to ParisLongchamp and the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe