The Yearning
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Last published Mon, Apr 10, 2017
No aspect of National Hunt racing is for the faint hearted. The elite string of horses owned by the Heffernans are living, breathing racing machines and their trainer Michael Heffernan is shrewd, assertive and ruthless yet he's worshipped by the racing world for his glorious achievements. Such a business needs top class employees right? Gain access to the life of the workers behind the horses who make it in the big races. Meet the jockeys and stable hands who dedicate their lives to such a worthy cause.
Michael's son Danny is his primary retained rider who at the young age of nineteen is really putting himself on the map. Nothing can hold him back from achieving champion jockey of the season or having a winner at Cheltnaham. Or can it?
Nina McNamara fresh out of secondary school is looking for a job in the racing industry. She applies for a job at Heffernan's yard against the pleas of her parents begging her to attend college. She's in her first full time job. How will she cope?
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