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Bryan Cooney talks to sport stars who will one day be remembered as legends.

Bryan Cooney meets top sportsmen and women who today are thought of as great, but who history will consider to be all-time legends of their game.

Stuff of Legends: Series 3

Stuff of Legends: Series 3: Episode 8: Peter Scudamore

Episode 8

Episode 8: Peter Scudamore

Series 3

Peter Scudamore

BBC Radio Scotland - Stuff of Legends, Series 3, Peter Scudamore

Champion jockey Peter Scudamore talks to Bryan Cooney about his extraordinary career.

Peter Scudamore, the most successful jockey in National Hunt history during his career, reveals the secrets behind his time in the saddle and as a top trainer.

8/8 Eight times champion jockey Peter Scudamore won a record breaking 1,678 times in his career. 

Racing was in his blood, his father Michael rode nearly five hundred winners including Oxo in the 1959 Grand National. 

Peter won his first race in 1979 and rode some of the best known horses of the era including Burrough Hill Lad and Corbiere before retiring after winning on Sweet Duke at Ascot in 1993. 

Now a racing journalist and commentator Peter is also assistant trainer at a stables near Milnathort.

Talking openly to Bryan Cooney about his relationship with the trainers Martin Pipe and Jenny Pitman, Peter also discloses how he faces up to fear and why he thinks there are no good racing tipsters.

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