Documentaries

jayroyal

Can anyone give me a good horse racing Documentary to watch on youtube

Oscars Well.

Inside Natures Giants: Racehorse is brilliant!! It should be on 4od if not on Youtube.
Edit Just had a look on 4od and its not avaliable anymore. If any can find it its a great watch for anyone interested in horse racing.

ft9

Oscars Well. wrote: »

Inside Natures Giants: Racehorse is brilliant!! It should be on 4od if not on Youtube.
Edit Just had a look on 4od and its not avaliable anymore. If any can find it its a great watch for anyone interested in horse racing.

Tough viewing though, I turned off when they started to cut the hoof up the middle with a band saw.

UrbanSea

I saw a good one on Jim Bolger on Setanta before,don't know where you'd get it

Oscars Well.

ft9 wrote: »

Tough viewing though, I turned off when they started to cut the hoof up the middle with a band saw.

You missed the part of Yeats gettin it on with a mare then!! :pac:

kfallon

There was an Aidan O'Brien documentary on YouTube not so long ago from circa 2003/4 I think. Not sure if it's still there!

Also the first Panorama programme about Racing is on there, think it first aired in 2002!

UrbanSea

Watching it now. What was the advantage to VC about the accounts?

kfallon

UrbanSea wrote: »

Watching it now. What was the advantage to VC about the accounts?

Would imagine it was inside info, I mean if Fitzgerald or Kelleway backed one of their own then VC would know it was 'off', if it they could take on their runners. Prob plenty of trainers availed of this, only Gay & Jimmy were found out.

Btw love the look Fallon gives him on the way back into the weighing room, that's it Kieren my boy, smack that c*nt

Gavin "shels"

Bought "In The Blood: The Story of Irish Horse Racing" in work tonight, going to give it a watch over Christmas.

UrbanSea

Give me a lend after Gavvy

Gavin "shels"

UrbanSea wrote: »

Give me a lend after Gavvy

Will do man.

UrbanSea

I forgot to say please.

Thanks

jossnjuice

not sure if its available, but i absolutely loved "horses" the RTE documentary where they followed paul nolan about for a year or so....

castletownman

ESPN had one on last night about the American horse Charismatic, who so nearly won the Triple Crown in 1999. It was a story of adversity with this unfancied horse coming out of nowhere to compete, and indeed a story of a great jockey Chris Atley who recovered from a drug addiction to partner the horse, only to see everything end tragically. Absolutely brilliant documentary IMO

Pj!

jossnjuice wrote: »

not sure if its available, but i absolutely loved "horses" the RTE documentary where they followed paul nolan about for a year or so....

Like you I absolutely loved that documentary. So much so that I searched everywhere online for the dvd and bought it (quite a while ago now).
The website I got it from seems to be down but it's a must if you can find it.
Well worth buying/watching.

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cents

UrbanSea wrote: »

I saw a good one on Jim Bolger on Setanta before,don't know where you'd get it

They replayed this one today and yesterday (and probably another 20 times before the year is out!)

Nice documentary,his gallops would put some racecourses to shame

Colonel Sanders

Surely at the very least Racing UK or otherwise will commission a documentary on Kauto Star

MinisterJD

Utube-bent racing
6 part documentary series shot in 2002

UrbanSea

Is that the panorama investigation

MinisterJD

Ya that's the one,Graham Bradley,Brian White etc.

UrbanSea

One on Jim Bolger is on TG4 at 20 past 5