Ep 1313 - Hauk eyes just six others in Irish Oaks

Tom in for Nick and joined initially by broadcaster Jane Mangan to assess a field of seven declared for this Saturday's Juddmonte Irish Oaks. We ask why so few are up against the Epsom winner Minnie Hauk and also ask similar quetions re field size for the repositioned GAIN Railway Stakes which used to take place on Irish Derby Day. We hear from Andy Slattery who sends out Powerful Nation in the Sapphire Stakes as well as Easy in Sunday's Minstrel Stakes and trainer Jonathan Portman joins us to talk of the supplemented Rumstar in the Sapphire. Jane and Tom discuss news of UK attendance figures being up for the first six months of the year and also the news that clients of John Dance are set to receive £6.3m from Barclays. It's Summer Plate weekend and Ollie Murphy looks set to have the favourite for the big hurdle and the chase and he is along to speak on both horses. Plus Richard Hughes joins to look ahead to running horses at Newbury in both the Hackwood and the Super Sprint and he gives an update on targets for his stars No Half Measures and Sayidah Dariyan