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Episode 576: Col Hodges OAM - Broadcasting legend missing in action after home accident.
Season 1 Episode 576
Col Hodges’ absence from western districts race meetings of late has been a talking point among his legion of friends. It’s taken a nasty fall and a…
5 hours ago
Episode 575: Brett Robb - Learned about horses from his Dad and got his sense of humour from a lifetime in the bush.
Season 1 Episode 575
Brett Robb made the call to go solo as a trainer when his father Rodney decided to cut his team back to five horses in 2020. He’d been working as st…
1 week ago
Episode 574: Jett Newman - Talented apprentice has topped 100 wins in just thirteen months of race riding.
Season 1 Episode 574
Eighteen year old apprentice Jett Newman had a huge number of trial rides before being signed up by northern rivers trainer Matt Dunn. She debuted in…
2 weeks ago
Episode 573: Gratz Vella - His Golden Slipper placing with Music Time triggered requests for a podcast. We’ve got him this week.
Season 1 Episode 573
I’ve had several emails requesting a podcast with Gratz Vella in the wake of his thrilling third placing in the TAB Golden Slipper with Music Time. T…
3 weeks ago
Episode 572: Kris Lees
Season 1 Episode 572
Kris Lees was thirty three years old when his father Max passed away in 2003. He’d been training a handful of horses in his own right while working a…
4 weeks ago
Episode 571: Bernie Howlett - The horseman who rode, trained and bred Group 1 winners
Season 1 Episode 571
With another edition of the historic Sydney Cup coming up on April 11th, it seems an appropriate time to catch up with a man who won it twice as a jo…
1 month ago
Episode 570: Scott Darby - Founder and Managing Director of syndication leaders Darby Racing
Season 1 Episode 570
It’s just over six years since Scott Darby last appeared on our podcast. At the time his popular racehorse syndication company was gathering momentum…
1 month, 1 week ago
Episode 569: Blake Spriggs - One year on from life threatening Moruya race fall
Season 1 Episode 569
Blake Spriggs answered immediately when I tried his mobile number one day last week. What a delight it was to hear such clarity, sparkle and fluency …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Episode 568: Jane Clement
Season 1 Episode 568
This week we catch up with another member of the “bush trainer brigade” - those remarkable people who continue to bring the very best out of horses …
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Episode 567: Richard Litt
Season 1 Episode 567
Richard Litt’s entry into the Sydney training ranks materialised under very sad circumstances. He’d barely settled into a training partnership at War…
2 months ago