Ep 148: The Racing Edge Podcast Ep 66 – Mick Murphy reflects on a memorable Arqana Breeze-Up Sale

About this episode

Mick Murphy discusses the success of Longways Stables at the Arqana Breeze-Up Sale and the latest in horse racing events.

There were almost back-to-back fireworks at the Arqana Breeze-Up Sale in France last weekend for Mick Murphy and Sarah O’Connell’s Longways Stables, as they supplied two of the sale’s top six lots sold in quick succession.   Murphy joins this week’s episode of The Racing Edge Podcast to discuss how he and his partner turned a 98,000gns yearling by Blue Point into an €800,000 breeze-up colt, as well as delivering a terrific return with a Showcasing filly, who realised €625,000 from a yearling purchase price of 140,000gns. The Longways team sold four horses for a total of €1.74 million at a sale that still presented its share of challenges for the vendors in the market.   Elsewhere on the podcast, Mark Boylan is joined by Mark Costello and Anne Marie Duff to look back on the classic trial action of the past week at Chester, Lingfield and Leopardstown. Aidan O’Brien’s French 1000 Guineas victory with the unbeaten Diamond Necklace was also the subject of discussion, as were novel initiatives to attract more racegoers to the track and previews of the Dante and Lockinge Stakes later this week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Mark Boylan

Guest: Mick Murphy

Topics covered

• Arqana Breeze-Up Sale
• horse racing
• classic trials
• Aidan O’Brien
• racegoer initiatives
• Dante Stakes
• Lockinge Stakes

Keywords

• Arqana Breeze-Up Sale
• Mick Murphy
• Longways Stables
• horse racing
• Aidan O’Brien
• Dante Stakes
• Lockinge Stakes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Longways Stables, Aidan O’Brien

Places: France, Chester, Lingfield, Leopardstown

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