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The Paddock and The Pavilion - The Horse Racing and Cricket Podcast

International Horse Racing and Cricket podcast hosted by Stephen Wallis. Listen in as I talk with the sports" stars from Newmarket and around the world. People and stories that move you.

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Ep 265 - Ben Bloom - Decisions, Decisions - What next...

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2024/05/13

The county cricket season is now in full swing and on today’s show you will be hearing from sportswriter Ben Bloom to talk all things county cricket. Ben has just written Batting for Time, a fascinating book which explores the fight to keep English cricket alive against the growing influence of franchise cricket around the world. Ben discusses with me the many areas which are affecting county cricket in the 21st century, a sporting institution, which has been going for over 150 years. But what needs

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Ep 264 - Rosa Simkin - On Fire promoting Women's Sport

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2024/05/07

Joining us today is Rosa Simkin of Rosa Talks Ball, a previous guest on the show and a passionate supporter of women’s sport. Discover how she discovered her interest in women’s sport and established her growing media outlet Rosa Talks Ball. Rosa looks ahead to the major events in the women’s 2024 cricket calendar and gives her predictions of the likely trophy winners. Rosa also selects her England team for their opening T20 World Cup match in Bangladesh in early October. A rising star of the future

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Ep 263 - Callum Helliwell - Having the time of his life

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2024/04/30

Joining us on today’s show is Callum Helliwell, a young Sky Sports Racing presenter, who if you are a racing fan can regularly be seen on Sky Sports, channel 415. Engaging, passionate and knowledgeable about the sport he loves, Callum tells us about what it’s like to work on live television in Britain and Saudi Arabia, including working at the Saudi Cup, the world’s richest race. In addition, you will hear his insightful views on the current state of diversity and inclusion in racing, following up

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Ep 262 - Richard Merriman - A World Cup Final &...

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2024/04/27

We are back to cricket today and the growing world of senior’s cricket. Our main guest is the current England over 60s captain Richard Merriman, who has just come back from the heat of a World Cup in India. Richard talks about the twelve nation competition based in Chennai where England reached the final. The England captain reflects on the challenges the squad faced on the sub-continent, the England stars of the tournament, and the charitable work the England squad did for the local community,

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Ep 261 - Hermione Drummond Moray - Embracing the...

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2024/04/22

On The Paddock and The Pavilion, we love inspiring series. We’ve had jockey Gavin Ashton’s five-part The road to recovery, and we have recently been featuring Jenny Thompson promoting women’s cricket on her world cricket tour. Joining us for our latest is Hermione Drummond Moray a young former event rider who is currently training to ride in the Macmillan ride of their lives charity race at York racecourse on Saturday 15 June. Hermione is one of twelve amateur jockeys who is set to ride in front of

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Ep 260 - Dylan Cunha - Finding the quality for value

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2024/04/15

It’s about time we had some racing back on the show and after our spell of cricket our guest for Ep 260 is the Newmarket based trainer Dylan Cunha, the South African who has made a flying start to the flat season.In a fascinating show Dylan talks about Group 1 glory in South Africa, his decision to stop training in his late twenties followed by a complete career change to become an airline pilot before his eventual return to the training ranks at the home of racing in 2022. A journey which has

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Ep 259 - Tina Gough - It all started with a tweet

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2024/04/11

Today we are joined, or should I say rejoined by German International cricketer Tina Gough who has featured in several previous episodes on The Paddock and The Pavilion. (Ep 185, 194, 195 & 213)Tina, the German opening batter, and medium pace bowler talks about her International career which started twice, in 2015 and then officially in 2019 against Scotland. You will also hear about her two trips to play in the Fairbreak Invitational tournament in 2022 and 2023 when she played for the KM Falcons

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Ep 258 - Roland Butcher - Totally Shocked & Disappointed

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2024/04/05

Today’s show focusses all things West Indies cricket with the show’s cricketing expert Roland Butcher.As many of you will know Roland, born in Barbados moved to England as a teenager and in 1980 became the first black player to play international cricket for England. He now lives in Barbados but regularly comes back to the UK for media work. Roland is currently working for the BCC covering this year’s county championship. Roland was until the end of 2023 a West Indies cricket selector. In this

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Ep 257 - Roland Butcher - There's a new Sheriff in Town

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2024/03/29

Former England international Roland Butcher and The Paddock and The Pavilion’s cricketing expert is back for the first time in 2024 to review the recent India versus England Test series where the new look England side under Brendan McCullum and Ben Stokes suffered their first series defeat.Roland offers his forthright and insightful opinions on the reasons why England were eventually heavily beaten 4-1 despite their incredible win in the 1st Test at Hyderabad. A lack of first innings runs, the

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Ep 256 - Jenny Thompson - All over the World - Part 4

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2024/03/27

In Part 4 of All over the World Jenny Thompson, the former Cheshire and Lancashire player joins us to chat about her Christmas and the New Year in Australia, the joys of travelling on #herworldcrickettour and the growth of women’s cricket. You will hear stories about two of the invisible giants, Joanne Broadbent and Jill Kennare as Jenny calls them, who she met up with at the end of 2023, plenty of travel chaos, including a hurricane, which is not ideal when you are in an areophane coming into

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Ep 255 - Jenny Thompson - All over the World - Part 3

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2024/03/22

After our recent feast of Cheltenham podcasts today we are back to cricket with a previous guest Jenny Thompson, who is currently on #herworldcrickettour. I last spoke to Jenny in Episodes 226 and 227 back in September 2023. As before we have two more shows with the most passionate of all cricket players.In Part 3 Jenny talks about her trips to Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica Fiji, and New Zealand to name just a few as she zips around the world, via Embassies, breakfast tv and glaciers, promoting the

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32:44

Ep 254 - The Cheltenham Gold Cup - Memories from the...

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2024/03/15

Capture the memories and thrills of the Cheltenham Gold Cup in our final podcast celebrating the centenary of this famous race through the words of three leading jockeys and three leading journalists.From the saddle you will hear from Graham McCourt a winner on Norton’s Coin in 1990, Charlie Swan of Istabraq fame and Charlie Fenwick, the Grand National winning jockey of 1980, while joining us from the press box the master racing broadcaster Brough Scott, young Sam Martin, a regular on this podcast

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Ep 253 - Stan Hayhurst - More Gold at Cheltenham

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2024/03/14

Welcome to our second part with Stan Hayhurst, the oldest living Cheltenham Gold Cup winning jockey.In Part two Stan remembers another Golden day at Cheltenham with the mare Kerstin as well as riding the giant Aintree fences of the 1950s and 60s including his connection with the massive pile up in the 1967 Grand National when the 100/1 outsider Foinavon shocked the sporting world. Stan reflects on the harsh winter of 1962/63, major victories at Ayr and his life after riding. If you missed Part 1

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Ep 252 - Stan Hayhurst - It was wonderful but...

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2024/03/13

For our next podcast celebrating the centenary of the Cheltenham Gold Cup I was joined by Stan Hayhurst, the oldest living Gold Cup winning jockey.In the first of two parts, with the now 90-year-old Stan, the northern based jockey recounts his special day at Cheltenham in March 1958 on the mare Kerstin. Stan recalls his early days in racing as an apprentice with Verly Bewicke, his first winner in 1950 at Hexham and what it was like to ride in those days, before he stopped for two years in the

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Ep 251 - Chris Pitt - Let no memories fade

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2024/03/12

For our next Cheltenham Festival episode, I was joined by Chris Pitt, author and racing historian, who has just written ‘Let no memories fade’ a book celebrating this year’s centenary of the Cheltenham Gold Cup.Enjoy some of the unique, fascinating and major stories about the famous race from a Cheltenham Gold Cup Mastermind. The worst horse to run in the race, the war years, a controversial result, Arkle v Mill House, the only French winner, the Native River v Might Bite battle all feature. Chris

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Ep 250 - Brough Scott - Golden memories of the...

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2024/03/08

We are off to the races today, Cheltenham races, ahead of the Cheltenham Festival with Brough Scott, one of Britain’s most respected journalists and broadcasters.Brough will be at the festival working for ITV racing but for the next hour enjoy his golden memories of the Cheltenham Gold Cup. Brough reveals his top three Gold Cup winners, best horse never to win the race, best training performance, best ride, and his favourite memory. Plus, you will hear a wealth of fascinatiing stories, about the

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Graham McCourt - What was it like to....Win the...

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2024/03/01

In the PaddockWhat was it like to....win the Cheltenham Gold Cup? In Episode 13 of a series where I pose the question ‘What was it like to…. I spoke to Graham McCourt, who was part of the biggest shock in history of the Cheltenham Gold Cup when he won the race riding the 100/1 outsider Norton's Coin. Graham recalls how he got the ride on the horse, what it was like to work for trainer and Welsh dairy farmer Sirrell Griffiths and the story of the race where the people's favourite Desert Orchid was

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Ep 249 - Grace Bambury - Transferring skills between...

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2024/02/26

Joining us on today’s show is Grace Bambury an inspiring young woman who is currently a professional cricket umpire and in the 4th year of her 5-year medical degree at Keele University.Find out how Grace manages studying for her medical degree with the challenges of umpiring international players in the hundred. It’s an insightful look into how she balances the two roles, transferring skills between medicine and cricket and giving 100% commitment to both. Please subscribe to us on Apple podcasts,

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Ep 248 - Andre Klein - On tour with the Cheltenham...

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2024/02/20

2024 is a special year for the Cheltenham Gold Cup which is due to celebrate its centenary on Friday 15 March. Joining us for today’s episode is Andre Klein, the Assistant General Manager of Cheltenham racecourse, who has been on the road and much more with the original Gold Cup trophy. Andre’s tour began with a four-peak challenge in four days last summer, in aid of Racing Welfare, when he took the Gold Cup up to the summit of Scarfell Pike, Snowdon, Carrountoohill and Arkle, the name of probably

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Ep 247 - Aaron Gransby - The Fakenham Favourite

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2024/02/12

In this podcast journalist Aaron Gransby, who has just written a new book, the Fakenham Favourite, joins us to tell the story of Cool Roxy and the Blackmores, Alan, and his wife Pat. Alan reflects on Cool Roxy’s amazing career, a record eleven wins at Fakenham, and the difference training horses from his small yard in Little Berkhamsted made to his family’s life before retiring in 2019 at the age of 90 following a family tragedy. We are also joined by Cool Roxy’s regular jockey Chris Honour,

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