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

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

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

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 ab

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

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 event

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

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,

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 former 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 1

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.

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