Nick Luck Daily Ep 1657 – Mullins warns Cheltenham over Festival ground

Nick is in Bahrain on the eve of the first Bahrain International Trophy, and Lydia Hislop joins him for the show. They begin by remembering Tom O’Brien, who died yesterday aged 39, and BHA chief executive Brant Dunshea pays tribute to his former colleague. Lydia gives her view on Willie Mullins’s fresh warning to Cheltenham over the state of the Festival ground, before Plumpton director Tom Savill explains the newly launched Gambling Policy Commission and Brant gives the BHA’s response. At the Bahrain Turf Club, Michael Owen and Hugo Palmer talk Seagulls Eleven and Glacius, Chris Wall assesses Wimbledon Hawkeye’s chance, and Dan Kübler reports on life training in the kingdom. York clerk Anthea Morshead looks ahead to Pioneer Pete’s bid in Sunday’s Greatwood Hurdle for Jonjo and AJ O’Neill, a horse she bred and named after her late father, Peter Beaumont. Dr Anna-Louise Mackinnon of the Injured Jockeys Fund explains how injured riders are cared for once they leave A&E, and Lydia closes with the TBA’s landmark traceability research.