TDN Conversations

Angus Gold is the man in the hotseat for the latest edition of TDN Conversations as he joins Emma Berry in Newmarket to chat about some of his most memorable times in the business and a busy year ahead. From Nashwan to Nayef, Battaash to Baaeed, Gold has had the inside track on some of the great names of the turf during his time as racing manager for Shadwell and this year he embarks on his 40th year in that role "I was very wet behind the ears," he says...

Angus Gold is the man in the hotseat for the latest edition of TDN Conversations as he joins Emma Berry in Newmarket to chat about some of his most memorable times in the business and a busy year ahead.  

As a trainer, Luca Cumani's name has long been etched in the history books among an elite group to have trained two Derby winners. Along with Kahyasi and High-Rise, other equine stars to have graced his stable over more than four decades include Barathea, One So Wonderful, Gossamer, Alkaased, Falbrav and Zomaradah, who is now better known as the dam of Dubawi. Perhaps one of the most special was the Fillies' Mile winner Shamshir, who carried the colours of Sheikh Mohammed but had been bred by Luca and his wife...

Luca Cumani and his wife Sara have long run a successful breeding establishment in tandem with the training operation, but since his retirement from the training ranks in 2018, Luca has joined Sara in making this his main focus. Luca took the time to join TDN Conversations, presented by Saracen Horse Feeds.

A visit to Richard Kent at Mickley Stud is guaranteed to involve some lively conversation - and lots of it - spiced with opinion, tips on horsemanship, and often some scurrilous gossip.  We've edited the gossip for legal reasons but it is still very much worth tuning into our latest episode of the TDN Conversations podcast in which Richard talks us through daily life in Shropshire and reflects on some of the stars to have been through his hands. Of the G1 Queen Anne Stakes victory of Docklands, by Mickey...

A visit to Richard Kent at Mickley Stud is guaranteed to involve some lively conversation - and lots of it - spiced with opinion, tips on horsemanship, and often some scurrilous gossip. Tune in to our latest episode of the TDN Conversations podcast with the breeder of Royal Ascot winner Docklands.

It was another memorable year on the breeze-up circuit for Willie Browne. The 79-year-old broke his own long-standing record at the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up by selling an Acclamation colt to Godolphin for 1.4 million gns. Roll on to Arqana and the Mocklershill maestro was at it again when selling a Siyouni colt to Coolmore for €1 million. Such results were welcome, according to Browne, who joked with Brian Sheerin on this month's edition of the TDN Conversations Podcast that 'it will be the first time in a few years where...

TDN Conversations is a new monthly podcast series and we are delighted to have been joined this month by Emma Balding, who discusses the history of her breeding operation with Emma Berry. "The whole place had been requisitioned by the Americans during the war, and the stud had been used for a dairy herd," she says of Kingsclere Stud, which neighbours the historic Park House Stables, where her son Andrew now trains. "So there are remnants still of the fact that it was used for that. The house was taken...

TDN Conversations is a new monthly podcast series and we are delighted to have been joined this month by Emma Balding, who discusses the history of her breeding operation with Emma Berry.