Exclusive: Fergal O'Brien Stable Tour 2023/24

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🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Trainer Fergal O’Brien joins Emmet Kennedy for our second exclusive stable tour of the new National Hunt season. The progress of his team at Ravenswell is evident to everyone. After a personal best season with 141 winners, he is well on track to surpass that record this season, having already secured 47 winners. Currently leading the Trainers' Championship with £400k in prize money, Fergal has ambitious goals to exceed last year's record-breaking campaign. He has assembled a team of highly promising young novice hurdlers, chasers, and bumper prospects, along with a strong squad for valuable handicaps and open company Graded races. We delve into his team, which includes Dysart Enos, Horaces Pearl, Check the Score, Crambo, Politacus, Pougne Aminta, School Days Over, Young Buster, Shy Love, Oak Grove, Poetic Music, Punctuation, Bonttay, Ryan's Rocket, Heartoverhead, Go To War, Pull Again Green, Paint the Dream, and Captain Cattistock. Venatour Racing Social: If your planning a racing trip to Europe or further afield, check out Venatour Racing Social for a large range of bespoke racing holidays at Venatour.co.uk Form Tools: Proform is the essential tool for punters looking to make money from betting on Horse Racing. Our form book covers Jumps and Flat racing in the UK and Ireland. https://www.proformracing.com/ Clothing: Racing Tee's offer fully customisable horse racing T-shirts, Hoodies, Gilets, Hats and more in your favourite horses colours. https://racingts.com Twitter: @FinalFurlongPod Email: radioemmet@gmail.com In association with Adelicious Podcast Network. Hosted on Megaphone. Follow us for free on Spotify Podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/3e6NnBkr7MBstVx5U7lpld Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome along to our second stable tour of the new jump season and the final
0:05.5	forlorn podcast. I'm Emma Kennedy and I'm delighted to say that I'm joined by
0:08.6	the most famous O'Brien in the racing game, Furgle O'Brien. Welcome back to the
0:14.2	final forlorn. Probably not even the four most famous O'Brien. I think the
0:18.4	snooker player Furgle O'Brien is even more famous than me. So yeah, I'm probably
0:21.5	not even probably five to six maybe. You can always claim it though. Like when
0:27.4	they're when they're tearing it up with the breeder's cup and he's going, yeah, it's
0:30.4	just another another successful weekend for the O'Brien. I do hang on to the
0:35.5	co-tales as much as I can. And occasionally, every now and again, they're writing
0:40.1	your co-tales. When those big successes are coming to Chelsea, that's all down
0:45.1	to Furgle. It's more room in the yard because it's it's back to you being
0:50.9	standalone trainer. How has that adjustment worked during the summer? Yeah, look
0:56.0	it's it's meant that we're slightly down in numbers. You know, this time last year
0:59.5	we're probably close to 60 winners. We're on 48 winners now. Because, you know,
1:04.4	we've realized that, you know, the capacity and stuff and we're still just
1:08.1	finishing off a new bar. And so, so fingers crossed, you know, we get those
1:12.6	numbers back up next summer. But, you know, it's all kind of very well. Our
1:15.0	strike rates obviously a lot better this year. But yeah, so kind of
1:19.3	complaints. So we're very happy to with how they're grown. And this time last
1:22.9	year when I was talking to you, we were having a good conversation of the
1:26.2	extraordinary numbers you'd rocked up already. And it's the same again this
1:30.0	season. It's it's absolutely bonkers. As you said, 47 winners so far, 397,000
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