Episodes

  • Punch a Hole in the Wind Episode 50 - Allez France

    Punch a Hole in the Wind Episode 50 - Allez France
    Jan 14 2023
    Our last story in this series of Punch a Hole in the Wind keeps us in the 1970s, but takes us across the Atlantic to France, and a wonderful yet rather quirky racehorse who remains the highest-rated European filly since the War.

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    11 mins
  • Punch a Hole in the Wind Episode 47 - Nijinsky

    Punch a Hole in the Wind Episode 47 - Nijinsky
    Jan 12 2023
    Named after a ballet dancer, Nijinsky had both the elegance and good looks worthy of his name. He was also one of the most brilliant horses ever to be trained in Ireland.

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    11 mins
  • Punch a Hole in the Wind Episode 45 - Windsor Lad

    Punch a Hole in the Wind Episode 45 - Windsor Lad
    Jan 10 2023
    The mid-1930s was something of a golden age of British thoroughbred champions, and Windsor Lad was right amongst them - helped into the limelight by his wonderful owner.

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    11 mins
  • Punch a Hole in the Wind Episode 43 - Tom Fool

    Punch a Hole in the Wind Episode 43 - Tom Fool
    Jan 6 2023
    Reverting to the 1950s US racing scene today, we look at a superb, muscular colt whose 4-year-old season still acts as the sublime benchmark for older horses in the US to this day.

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    13 mins
  • Punch a Hole in the Wind Episode 42 - Kingston Town

    Punch a Hole in the Wind Episode 42 - Kingston Town
    Jan 5 2023
    We make another trip Down Under today and look at a versatile, record-breaking gelding of the late 1970s and early 1980s who became one of the inaugural members of the Australian Racing Hall of Fame.

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    13 mins
  • Punch a Hole in the Wind Episode 40 - Spectacular Bid

    Punch a Hole in the Wind Episode 40 - Spectacular Bid
    Jan 2 2023
    As the 1970s turned to the 1980s, Spectacular Bid more than lived up to his name, proving himself to be a timeless great despite the sometimes dubious behaviours of the colourful characters who looked after him.

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    11 mins
  • Punch a Hole in the Wind Episode 39 - Brantome

    Punch a Hole in the Wind Episode 39 - Brantome
    Dec 29 2022
    We drift back many decades today to the 1930s and France, where an outstanding thoroughbred was already being hailed as the ‘horse of the century’ until the most bizarre of incidents occurred, after which he was never quite the same.

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    11 mins
  • Punch a Hole in the Wind Episode 37 - Mumtaz Mahal

    Punch a Hole in the Wind Episode 37 - Mumtaz Mahal
    Dec 15 2022
    We’re going back a century this time to a British filly who not only scorched the turf during her dazzling career, but also thereafter had a profound impact on the breed as a broodmare.

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    11 mins