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The Final Furlong Podcast

Hanging with Hector: Inside Ballydoyle, Living with Johnny Murtagh & Owning a Racehorse

The Final Furlong Podcast

The Final Furlong Podcast

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4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 165 minutes

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Summary

In association with At The Races and The Betfair Exchange: Emmet Kennedy chats to Documentary film maker Hector Ó hEochagáin about his love of Horse Racing and how it led his Documentaries which saw him live with Johnny Murtagh and go behind the scenes in Ballydoyle, flying with Duke Of Marmalade and Henry The Navigator to Santa Anita for the 2008 Breeders Cup. Plus, Hector talks about his ground breaking TV Series 'Only Fools Buy Horses' showcasing buying a Race Horse, seeing him in Training and the craic watching him Race. Plus the lads chat about Racing in general and have a few laughs while taking trips down memory lane! Produced by friend of the show Kieran O'Connor, checkout Betfair's outstanding Documentary 'Tiger Roll: Horse of a Lifetime' on YouTube now! youtu.be/Y7ys1jlkYQQ Likes & Shares on Twitter appreciated 👍 Subscribe for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud and all Podcast apps. If you're listening on an Apple device, we'd really appreciate a Five Star Rating on Apple Podcast's to help spread the word about the show. Can You Dig It - Brian Tyler www.attheraces.com/finalfurlongpodcast Download on iTunes itunes.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-f…id601526577?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Betfair Exchange, more ways to bet, more ways to win, proud sponsors of the Final

0:06.4

Furlong Podcast.

0:07.7

The Final Furlong Podcast is proudly brought to you by at the races.com, the ultimate online resource for racing fans.

0:15.0

Welcome along to the final forlum podcast. It is great to have you with us. I'm your host

0:19.0

Emmish Kennedy and I hope you are well and I hope that this man is well too by the way because this is an absolute legend a man

0:28.0

that I've been looking to have back on the show for quite a while and due to current circumstances the stars have aligned and he's here if for some reason because we have a

0:36.6

lot of new listeners in the UK and worldwide as well and hello to you all and hope

0:40.5

you are in good form I can tell you that he is one of Ireland's most famous broadcasters.

0:45.6

He is a brilliant documentary filmmaker who has done some fantastic content.

0:51.4

He's traveled the world. he's got endless stories but he's also

0:55.7

done horse racing documentaries where he's lived with Johnny Murta in a series

1:00.0

called Hangin with Hector he bought his own racehorse for a TV show called Only Fools by Horses,

1:06.2

which will definitely talk about as well. And he went to the Breeders' Cup with Aidan

1:11.1

O'Brien. It's the main man.

1:13.0

Hector, welcome back to the show.

1:15.0

Emm if what an introduction, I completely forgot that I used to hang around

1:19.0

with a load of famous people, people that I chose, and one of them was Johnny Murtha, but I forgot that I recorded in his house,

1:25.8

great story, we're in the sauna, I knew he had a sauna and I knew before he hopped into the car with

1:30.5

Fran Berry and all the lads going race and that he would cut his waist

1:34.1

and do whatever a waist and he had to do.

1:36.0

So I said, Johnny, is there any way

1:37.1

we can do a little sequence in the sauna?

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