Nicky Henderson Interview, Open Meeting Review & Weekend Preview

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🗓️ 16 November 2016

⏱️ 105 minutes

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In association with At The Races: Emmet Kennedy talks to Nicky Henderson to get his thoughts on the career of the brilliant dual Champion Chaser Sprinter Sacre. Then Emmet is joined by Kevin Blake, Rory Delargy & TV's Sean Boyce to review the Open Meeting at Cheltenham, including Thistlecracks second start over fences, Moon Racer's victory and the two feature handicaps. Plus we preview the weekends action including the Betfair Chase at Haydock as Cue Card faces Coneygree. www.attheraces.com/finalfurlongpodcast Download on iTunes itunes.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-f…id601526577?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Final Furlong Podcast is brought to you in association with At the Races.com, the ultimate resource for racing fans.
0:07.5	Thank you for downloading the Final Fallen Podcast on At the Races iTunes Soundcloud and on Android and Google as well. I'm Emmett Kennedy
0:14.4	later on I'll be joined by TV's Sean Boyce, William Hill Radio is Rory
0:18.8	Delargy and as usual at the races pundit Kevin Blake but it is my absolute pleasure first of all to
0:23.9	welcome our special guests to the show a man who we've talked about in the
0:26.8	podcast for a very long time and finally he's here and Nicki Henderson
0:30.2	welcome to the show well good, good evening. Thank you.
0:33.0	Nicki, I'd love to have you on under better circumstances, but we had to talk to you after the
0:36.4	retirement of Sprinter, but first of all, might I just pass on our own sympathies to you from
0:41.6	the podcast and indeed from our listeners on the loss
0:44.0	assignment. He was a lovely horse and perhaps the real great sadness of his
0:47.5	losses there was so much more to come. Yeah thank you no I mean that absolutely
0:52.0	true you know he had tested us over the years but he was a very very talented horse and you probably remember him when he was a point of pointer and he won a very good bumper at fairy house. I think it was the point to point of point and he won a very good bumper at Fairy House I think it was the point
1:03.5	to point bumper by absolute miles but actually you know Ronnie already said he was
1:09.4	coming to England the next year so we were just very lucky to inherit a horse like that and he was
1:14.2	in the first two years he was outstanding and he always was he's working the last
1:19.6	sort of few weeks has been absolutely outstanding and I really thought we might be back on track
1:24.6	but sadly it stopped to be and suddenly he's sort of he didn't come home that night
1:29.6	which is sort of it made the day pretty brutal altogether but you know we've been
1:36.6	down this road before but it it'll always hurt it's always struck me as though
1:40.9	you're quite an emotional person and that's what was reported when you
1:44.1	announce the retirement sprint to soccer as well.
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