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Where is Jón?

Tiger Roll, The People's Horse: Bonus - A Word with Michael O'Leary

Where is Jón?

RTÉ

Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.5717 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Bonus: Michael O'Leary officially announced on February 27th 2022 that Tiger Roll will be retired after his final race at the Cheltenham Festival on March 16th, 2022. Michael Lawless caught up with Michael shortly after this announcement to see what

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0:00.0

This is a short bonus episode to look at what lies ahead for Tiger Roll after his racing days are over.

0:10.8

My colleague Michael Lawless caught up with Michael O'Leary, Tiger's owner, who spoke to us from a hotel room in London.

0:18.1

Michael had just announced that Tiger's retirement would begin after his final race

0:22.9

at the 2022 Cheltenham Festival.

0:26.7

The first question I have, I suppose,

0:28.6

is how will Tiger spend his retirement?

0:32.0

He'll come back to Jiggins Town

0:33.5

where he'll spend

0:35.3

hopefully a long and very happy retirement with some other notable

0:39.4

race horses, war of attrition,

0:41.6

Don Cossack, Lance and Storland,

0:43.8

Roy DeMe,

0:45.3

and Weptons Amnesty.

0:47.1

We retire all our

0:48.3

champion race horses and they're

0:50.9

lovingly looked after for the rest of their life.

0:53.3

Can you paint a picture of what Jiggins town looks like

0:57.2

and with all those other horses?

0:59.1

Like how big is it?

0:59.9

The retired horse horses spend their time around the,

1:03.4

immediately in the fields around the whole end of the house

1:05.8

where myself, the family, the children can grow out

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