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🗓️ 3 March 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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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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