Welcome to Talk Racing To Me with Naomi Show 22! Perennial Saratoga Meet Leading trainer Todd Pletcher kicks things off, looking back on securing his 14th Saratoga title. The 7-time Eclipse Award winning Champion trainer reflects on this incredible achievement and what is needed to continue performing at the top of the racing pyramid. The 2nd guest is Fasig Tipton Sale representative and bloodstock agent Ramiro Restrepo, who gives us full disclosure on the recently con...
Sep 11, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Kentucky Derby Week! Back at it again with Show 21. Talk Racing To Me! Three expert guests share their experience and views on this year's Kentucky Derby and Oaks: Laffit Pincay III, the Saratoga Live host as well as NBC Sports broadcaster. He will be covering all the action at Churchill Downs. NYRA paddock analyst Maggie Wolfendale returned again this week! Her analysis is second to none. Champion Apprentice Richard Migliore provides a jockey’s perspecti...
Sep 03, 2020•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Show 20 is quite the anniversary episode! The one and only Maggie Wolfendale, the Queen of NYRA, joins Naomi this week. When Maggie talks, everyone listens. Her sharp eye and extensive knowledge of all the runners have made her a popular and unique member of the broadcasting team. Aside from paddock analysis, she’s a host, a handicapper and she conducts horse back interviews to boot. The national Fox Sports shows such as Saratoga Live and America’s Day at the Races wouldn’t be the same wit...
Aug 29, 2020•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Talk Racing To Me with Naomi show 19 features New York’s own racecaller John Imbriale and Bob Edwards from e Five racing! Johnny I as he’s affectionately known to all at NYRA has held many different roles within the organisation, and has taken to the announcing booth full time since earlier this year. Learn about his experience, race calling style, as well as Saratoga history and so much more during this interview. E Five Thoroughbreds consists of Bob and Kris Edwards and their children Ca...
Aug 21, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Show 18 is here! Featuring Hall of Fame rider Johnny Velazquez. Johnny chats everything Gamine, from her character, to what she feels like to ride and possible race plans. He shares his insight and experience in the game after 31 years, continuously developing himself and learning. Saratoga mounts coming up this weekend were mentioned too: Gufo in the Saratoga Derby and Spice is Nice in the G1 Alabama Stakes. A possible KY Derby ride is hinted at and Johnny elaborates on the quarantine experienc...
Aug 13, 2020•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's Runhappy Travers Week! Before we dive into the action coming up, there is a guest returning to the Talk Racing To Me with Naomi airwaves... Now Grade 1 winning trainer Jack Sisterson! We discussed 3 of his horses on show 16 and these were their results: Vexatious won the G1 Personal Ensign, Everfast won the race after and Lexitonian missed out by a nose almost making it a Grade 1 double on the day for the young Englishman. The second guest is co-founding father of the In The Money Med...
Aug 06, 2020•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Saratoga G1 Stakes preview featuring the Personal Ensign, the Whitney and the H. Allen Jerkens. Hall of Famer Shug McGaughey chats Code of Honor as well as reminiscing on the legendary Personal Ensign and Easy Goer. Calumet Farm trainer Jack Sisterson elaborates upon late Alfred G. Vanderbilt scratch Lexitonian, his Bing Crosby entry, Vexatious running in the Personal Ensign and Everfast on the undercard. Long standing NYRA analyst Andy Serling ties it all together by going over the en...
Jul 31, 2020•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast An action-packed Show 15 of Talk Racing To Me with Naomi is here! Naomi kicks things off with Fox Sports host, reporter and analyst as well as Gulfstream park on air handicapper and assistant producer Acacia Courtney. Both of them are working at Saratoga and hence were able to find a spare hour for a proper sit down. It truly is a candid chat, no holding back, just two friends talking freely. It would be a hard act to follow Acacia Courtney, but 2015 Champion Apprentice, rising star ...
Jul 23, 2020•2 hr 33 min•Transcript available on Metacast NT sits down with the voice of the Triple Crown and Breeders’ Cup Broadcasts on NBC Sports: Larry Collmus. They chat about a spontaneous visit to Amsterdam, his love for Baseball and the words he uttered after American Pharoah won the Triple Crown. Larry elaborates on the story of his NBC Sports call up, game plan for calling the KY Derby and so much more. They cover just about everything! Truly an episode you don’t want to miss. Larry Collmus like you’ve never heard before. Naomi ac...
Jul 16, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today’s show features a very special guest in Santa Anita Park Senior Vice President and Executive Producer, as well as long standing NCB Sports Producer Amy Zimmerman. Amy elaborates upon the atmosphere and silence in the production truck when American Pharoah won the Triple Crown; how they had a major sportscast to produce, whereby the climax always presents itself in the last half hour, but even more so in that instant. She outlines her start within the industry, moving to Kentucky...
Jul 14, 2020•52 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast Talk Racing To Me with Naomi Show 12! Al Stall Jr discusses his stable star Tom’s d’Etat’s Breeders Cup Classic bid, Blame comparisons and other notable horses in his barn. Don’t miss the story on his first morning as a trainer in his own right either.. Colt Pike joined us amidst their celebrations as his family's Pike Racing sold the sale topper at the Fasig Tipton Midlantic Two-Year Olds In Training Sale, with their Uncle Mo colt going for $1.1 million. He elaborates on their Louisiana op...
Jul 14, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Just listen to the episode... Only kidding! So proud to have Sackatoga Stable's Jack Knowlton with us this episode, chatting everything Tiz the Law, the Triple Crown duration, the Funny Cide story, getting new partners into Sackatoga, their relationship with Barclay Tagg and so much more. My racing highlights of the week are brought up before closing of this week's show with Kimberley Godwin Clark of Thoroughbred Placement Resources, visiting her farm in Maryland. She is one of the select few in...
Jul 14, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Special episode! Show 10 features the story of the Biancone family as told by daughter, exercise rider, co-owner and assistant trainer Andie Biancone who has #2 Sole Volante lining up in this year’s Belmont Stakes on Saturday. Learn how Sole Volante came into their lives, how much confidence Andie has in him, the nervous experience of watching him run (being a deep closer) and how Andie’s dream is to become the first female trainer in her home land of Hong Kong. She also gives us her take ...
Jul 14, 2020•39 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast Not only will you get up to speed on the upcoming Royal Ascot meeting, Vanessa and Naomi go over last weekend’s 2,000 & 1,000 Guineas winners whilst diverting into racing families and European top racehorses. The (Epsom) Derby and its significance is discussed, against the growing sentiment of breeders being drawn towards speed favouring sires. Vanessa highlights how the UK Triple Crown isn’t as fashionable anymore, in comparison to the popularity of the USA Triple Crown trail. &n...
Jul 14, 2020•2 hr 46 min•Transcript available on Metacast How does broadcasting work in different sports? Learn about college football and college basketball in comparison to horse racing as told by top sportscaster Jeannine Edwards. NT and Jeannine discuss the Eclipse Awards, her career as a trainer, riding horses with the likes of Angel Cordero Jr. in the mornings at Belmont & Aqueduct and so much more. After 22 years as a broadcaster Jeannine has quite a few bits of knowledge she’s willing to share.
Jul 14, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Two top guests light up this week's TRTM w Naomi: Former jockey turned TV racing analyst Richard Migliore & Multiple Grade 1 winning trainer Tom Morley. From a first-time airplane ride to Eclipse Apprentice Award glory, the late trainer Stephen DiMauro played a pivotal role in Richard Migliore's life. Words of wisdom are given by Tom Morley as he elaborates on just about anything concerning the New York Racing circuit, the revised Triple Crown as well as how we can do better as an industry.&...
Jul 14, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast NT sits down with Dubai World Cup winning jockey Aaron Gryder (virtually of course) who chats about swapping furniture and apartments between jockeys, breaking into Drayden van Dyke’s trailer at 5AM and how he got cast for the Sopranos. He had a different use for the Dubai World Cup winning silks and gives us a rare inside look into the memorabilia he has received from some of his famous athlete friends which includes legendary New York Yankee players. But it gets even better, as he recalls gett...
Jul 14, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast Talk Racing To Me Episode 5 gets you up to speed on this weekend’s action! - Publicity manager Kevin Kerstein covers the opening of Churchill Downs. - Leading Maryland based trainer Dale Capuano shares what it takes to run a successful claiming stable. Kevin: 4:25 Dale: 52:16
Jul 14, 2020•2 hr 34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Show 4 of Talk Racing To Me with Naomi is here! We kick off proceedings with Ruben Munoz, long-time agent of Ricardo Santana Jr., who just secured his 7th leading rider title at Oaklawn Park over the weekend. His background within the racing sphere gifts us a fair few outstanding stories including some of the industry’s legendary riders, aside from the remarkable journey he and his protégé have been on. We close off the show with trainer Bret Calhoun, covering his stable stars including Oa...
Jul 14, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast The Arkansas Derby Special is here! With a 170 Kentucky Derby qualifying points on the line per race, every single runner in both Divisions of Saturday’s Grade 1 Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park gets covered in detail by experts in the horse racing business. Hall of Famer Johnny Velazquez kicks things off followed by Todd Pletcher, Brad Cox, Jerry O’Dwyer, Maggie Wolfendale and Acacia Courtney. If you want to check out what your favourite trainer, jockey or analyst has to say, the timestamps...
Jul 14, 2020•2 hr 38 min•Transcript available on Metacast The 2nd episode of Talk Racing To Me with Naomi is here, featuring none other than Laffit Pincay III! Let the NBC Sports and Fox Sports anchor tell you what really goes on behind the scenes of a national horse racing show, including surreal moments, outspoken opinions, what went through his head when American Pharoah made Triple Crown history and how you can never BS a horse racing fan. And much more..
Jul 14, 2020•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's Naomi Tukker's debut episode of her stand alone show "Talk Racing To Me with Naomi" The global horse racing podcast featuring in-depth interviews with some of racing’s most remarkable characters whilst keeping you up to date with current events. This week's episode includes a chat with Inglis GM of bloodstock sales and Marketing, Sebastian Hutch, about the 2020 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling sale and jockey Forest Boyce on hunting with three time Maryland Million Classic winner Eig...
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