{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Idol Horse Podcast","title":"James Cummings: The Cummings Name, A New Chapter in Hong Kong","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3997,"description":"Hong Kong's newest trainer, James Cummings – grandson of the legendary Bart Cummings – sits down with Michael Cox as he prepares for his first season at Sha Tin.\nJames provides some insight into the unique \"club med\" lifestyle of training on-course, raising four kids in the trainers' village, and the camaraderie he's found among Hong Kong's expat and local horsemen alike. He reflects on the advice he's sought from John Size, Caspar Fownes and David Hayes, and why the handicap system means goals need to be realistic in his first season.\nThe heart of the conversation is Bart. James recalls his earliest memories at Randwick track work, becoming foreman to his grandfather in 2009, and co-training from 2013 – a period in which So You Think announced himself in the Cox Plate and went on to become a star. He unpacks his grandfather's confidence, a salesmanship born in an Adelaide tailor shop, and the lessons of horses like Kementari, whose remarkable return from failed stallion duties captures everything Cummings loves about getting the most from a horse.\nPlus: a gap-year education taking in Aidan and Joseph O'Brien in Ireland, Bob Baffert at Santa Anita and Del Mar, and the Miho training centre in Japan – and why Caspar's premiership proves the best horse in any stable is the team behind it.\nThis episode is brought to you by Keeneland's September Sale, the world's largest yearling sale, running September 14–26 in Lexington, Kentucky. If you're looking for your next good horse, that's where the world will be.\nFor more of the best in world racing, head to idolhorse.com.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/3ll5hYA6u4YVxrWOh8YYGHbwQKX9krOodGWfuZAsTtc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kMWEx/MTRmNjNkYmRhZmU5/ZTdkMzk5NTczNTU1/YmEzMy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}