Ep 167 - How will the roadmap affect Aintree and Royal Ascot?

Nick is joined by David Yates from the Daily Mirror to assess the potential impact of the government's four-phase lifting of covid lockdown restrictions, two of whose dates pose interesting logistical possibilities for rearrangement of the marquee Aintree and Ascot fixtures. Ascot's Director of Comms and Public Affairs Nick Smith joins the conversation. Later in this edition, Nick talks to French trainer Hugo Merienne, hopeful of striking at Kempton Park this weekend with the promising juvenile hurdler Margaret's Legacy, while Paul Ferguson - author of the Weatherbys Betting Guide joins the show ahead of it publication this week, and Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff award winner Beck Edmunds reflects on last night's triumph.