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Where is Jón?

Tiger Roll, The People's Horse: 06 - The National

Where is Jón?

RTÉ

Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.5717 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The biggest prize in National Hunt racing is the Grand National, and in 2018 Tiger was entered into a race nobody ever thought he could take on. But is he up for the challenge? (Ep 6/7).

Transcript

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0:00.0

The seasons play a big part in all of our lives.

0:06.5

In the animal kingdom, spring means life, birth.

0:11.3

The days get longer.

0:12.9

And for Tiger Roll, it's the time of year when he shines.

0:17.5

And this episode is all about Tiger's shining on the racetrack.

0:22.7

Coming to March, coming to April, he gets in better form.

0:25.8

He knows, when he gets a son in his back, he knows that's the time of year.

0:29.5

He'd be bucking and kicking most days when he ride him out, like, and he'd always

0:33.7

wanting to do it.

0:34.5

If you were upside to another horse, he could pull in the arms,

0:36.6

you never want to go head for head.

0:38.0

He always wants to be better

0:38.9

than the horse beside him

0:39.8

and you wouldn't want to be sitting

0:41.4

on your phone on him anyway.

0:42.5

You know, it's like where he'd be sharp

0:43.5

and he's fresh and he's such a big heart.

0:45.6

He tries every day.

0:47.9

You're listening to episode six

0:49.8

of Tiger Roll, the People's Horse. At the end of episode 5, in February 2018, Jockey Keith Dunahue had just schooled Tiger

0:59.6

around the cross-country course at Cheltenham.

1:02.8

And Keith felt this was going to be a special year for Tiger.

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