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2 weeks ago | 
thoroughbredracing.com | Laura King |Graham Dench |Nicholas Godfrey
Interview with popular FanDuel TV presenter set to visit prestigious meeting with Gulfstream Park scorer, who represents her father Patrick in the Queen Mary StakesWhen you build a perception of someone you have seen on TV, it’s not always reflective of that person in real life. Enter Andie Biancone – as refreshing and warm via phone as she appears to those watching her on US racing channel FanDuel.
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2 months ago | 
thoroughbredracing.com | Jay Hovdey |James Burn |Tom Pedulla |Laura King
In a major interview, Jay Hovdey speaks to the president of the hugely successful partnership group behind the Derby favoriteOther than its racetrack and sprawling fairgrounds, there’s not much to the Southern California village of Del Mar. At last count, the population was less than 4,000. Two traffic lights and a few stop signs give pause to travelers along the main drag, better known as the Pacific Coast Highway.
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2 months ago | 
thoroughbredracing.com | James Burn |Tom Pedulla |Laura King |Graham Dench
Interview with 20-year-old from a famous Yorkshire racing family seeking to build her fledgling career across the pondIt was probably odds-on Mia Nicholls would become a jockey. But if there is one absolute certainty about the Yorkshire apprentice's fledgling riding career, it is how smitten she is with her new life Stateside.
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2 months ago | 
thoroughbredracing.com | Tom Pedulla |Laura King |Graham Dench
As worries continue over the future of racing at the South Florida track amid the prospect of ‘decoupling’, Gustavo Delgado, Saffie Joseph, Eddie Plesa and Antonio Sano talk to Tom PedullaThe outlook appears to be grim as horsemen continue efforts to convince Florida lawmakers not to pass decoupling legislation.
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Mar 17, 2025 | 
thoroughbredracing.com | Laura King |Ken Snyder |Nicholas Godfrey
Interview with 13-time champion trainer in Scandinavia whose star filly qualified for the Kentucky Oaks with her success in the UAE Oaks at MeydanThe Scandinavian racing scene may be regarded as something of a backwater on the international stage. Not if the region’s 13-time champion trainer Niels Petersen has anything to do about it. however.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
thoroughbredracing.com | Laura King |Ken Snyder |Nicholas Godfrey
Laura King speaks to the leading rider, who has been riding out for UAE champion trainer Bhupat Seemar ahead of her return to race-riding after a career-threatening injuryMarch 2012: around 100 journalists and photographers are at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai, their eyes and lenses trained on the horses on the track. Then a girl arrives, wearing a bright pink body protector and helmet with a pink bobble. Suddenly, all the focus is on her.
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Dec 11, 2024 | thoroughbredracing.com | Laura King |Ken Snyder |Nicholas Godfrey
Laura King speaks to the leading rider, who has been riding out for UAE champion trainer Bhupat Seemar ahead of her return to race-riding after a career-threatening injuryMarch 2012: around 100 journalists and photographers are at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai, their eyes and lenses trained on the horses on the track. Then a girl arrives, wearing a bright pink body protector and helmet with a pink bobble. Suddenly, all the focus is on her.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
thoroughbredracing.com | Ken Snyder |Laura King |Nicholas Godfrey
Interview with one-time leading apprentice set to ride at Oaklawn’s lucrative winter-spring meet after taking the plunge and quitting Britain when a series of major blows derailed a promising career at homeThe late great Yogi Berra, more famous for a motherlode of malaprops than a Hall of Fame baseball career, once said: “If there’s a fork in the road, take it.”Like most ‘Yogi-isms’, there’s wit and sometimes a smidgeon of wisdom.
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Dec 4, 2024 | thoroughbredracing.com | Ken Snyder |Laura King |Nicholas Godfrey
Interview with one-time leading apprentice set to ride at Oaklawn’s lucrative winter-spring meet after taking the plunge and quitting Britain when a series of major blows derailed a promising career at homeThe late great Yogi Berra, more famous for a motherlode of malaprops than a Hall of Fame baseball career, once said: “If there’s a fork in the road, take it.”Like most ‘Yogi-isms’, there’s wit and sometimes a smidgeon of wisdom.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
thoroughbredracing.com | Laura King |Nicholas Godfrey |Jon Lees
A frank interview with Newmarket-based rider on the comeback trail after hitting rock bottom – to the extent that he even tried to take his own lifeWhen it comes to falling, most jockeys learn how to bounce. But when you fall so hard emotionally that you try to take your own life, things get much harder. That is where George Buckell found himself just 16 months ago. He had reached rock bottom, no longer race-riding, and his weight had soared.
