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Episode 366: Tappy chats with Joe Pride

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Episode 366: Tappy chats with Joe Pride

Great to catch up with a very switched on trainer who has sailed past the 1000 career win tally. Joe explains that he discourages owners from keeping horses who are not paying their way. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS.)

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Episode 365: Tappy chats with Sheila Laxon

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Episode 365: Tappy chats with Sheila Laxon

Thoroughly enjoyed my chat with Sheila Laxon ONZM who’s now training in tandem with her partner John Symons on the Sunshine Coast. Welsh born Sheila was riding ponies on the family farm at age three, a precursor to a fascinating life with horses. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

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Episode 363: Tappy chats with Kevin Kemp

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Episode 363: Tappy chats with Kevin Kemp

After a brief career as an apprentice jockey and an even briefer one in the harness racing sport, Kevin Kemp acquired his thoroughbred trainer’s license in1975. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

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Episode 359: Tappy chats with Bill Prain

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Episode 359: Tappy chats with Bill Prain

Great to catch up with Bill Prain who called it quits in 2018 when his great friend and valued client Fred Peisah succumbed to illness. Bill had been adamant for some time that he’d retire if ever Fred left the racing industry. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

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Episode 356: Tappy chats with Colin Little

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Episode 356: Tappy chats with Colin Little

When Colin Little walked away from his Caulfield training base late last year, he knew that retirement wasn’t too far away. He intended to keep training at Pakenham in the immediate future, but an ironic twist of fate intervened. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

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Episode 353: Tappy chats with Kerry Parker

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Episode 353: Tappy chats with Kerry Parker

Great to catch up with the popular Kembla Grange trainer who is enjoying a magical ride with Think It Over, the horse rated by many as Australia’s most improved galloper. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

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Episode 350: Tappy chats with David Robertson

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Episode 350: Tappy chats with David Robertson

I’ve always been aware that a man called Lou Robertson was one helluva horse trainer, but I really didn’t know why history has treated him so kindly. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

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Episode 349: Tappy chats with Maddie Raymond

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Episode 349: Tappy chats with Maddie Raymond

Maddie Raymond has been training in her own right for just two years but has already given notice that she has arrived in the Victorian training ranks. (CLICK IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

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Episode 348: Tappy chats with Bryan Guy

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Episode 348: Tappy chats with Bryan Guy

We catch up with Bryan Guy who called time on his training career recently when Gold Coast developers secured his training property at Bundall. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

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Episode 340: Tappy chats with Bob Thomsen

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Episode 340: Tappy chats with Bob Thomsen

The former outstanding Randwick trainer talks about his introduction to horses at an Oatley riding school, and his interest in becoming an apprentice jockey. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

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Episode 336: Tappy chats with Theresa Bateup

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Episode 336: Tappy chats with Theresa Bateup

Great to catch up with a lady whose continued success is bringing her under notice as a very serious horse trainer. Theresa Bateup announced her presence with a metro double on Gong day. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS.)

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Episode 330: Tappy chats with Gayna Williams

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Episode 330: Tappy chats with Gayna Williams

Great to catch up with a doyen of western districts racing! Gayna recalls the thrill of her first training win with Scarlet Vixen at Orange in 1985. She paid $1400 for the filly at an Inglis sale. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS.)

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Episode 328: Tappy chats with Alan "Jock" Gollogly

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Episode 328: Tappy chats with Alan "Jock" Gollogly

Delighted to catch up with a bloke who boasts a racing pedigree to match that of any thoroughbred blueblood. Alan Gollogly is the son of the former successful Queensland jockey of the same name, and the grandson of Fred Best who won 17 Brisbane trainer’s premierships. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

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Episode 325: Tappy chats with Kylie Gavenlock

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Episode 325: Tappy chats with Kylie Gavenlock

Kylie Gavenlock’s early life revolved around her devotion to horses and her love for the NSW Central Coast. Now at age 57 Kylie is still based at Gosford and is in her fourth decade as a professional trainer. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

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Episode 318: Tappy chats with Rod Northam

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Episode 318: Tappy chats with Rod Northam

Great to catch up with respected Scone trainer Rod Northam who’s hoping a slot holder might come along for his Kosciuszko hopeful Spiranac. Rod has high praise for the Scone training precinct. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

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Episode 315: Tappy chats with Noel Mayfield-Smith

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Episode 315: Tappy chats with Noel Mayfield-Smith

Great to catch up with trainer Noel Mayfield-Smith who recently pulled up stakes and relocated from Hawkesbury to sunny Coffs Harbour. He explains why he settled on the north coast. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

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Episode 313: Tappy chats with Brett Bellamy

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Episode 313: Tappy chats with Brett Bellamy

Great to catch up with Coffs Harbour trainer Brett Bellamy who grew up among the Hawkesbury race crowd but moved to the north coast with his family as a 17 year old. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

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Episode 312: Tappy chats with Troy Williams

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Episode 312: Tappy chats with Troy Williams

You’ll go a long way to find anybody more passionate about harness racing than forty year old trainer Troy Williams who’s enjoying a winning streak at the moment. He talks about the stable runners who are making it possible. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

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Episode 309: Tappy chats with Peter Sinclair

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Episode 309: Tappy chats with Peter Sinclair

Great to catch up with one of country racing’s most popular trainers. Peter talks of the early starts necessary to get his horses worked before reporting for duty as a Telstra technician. (CLICK ON IMAGE TO SEE MORE PHOTOS)

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Episode 306: Tappy chats with John Sargent

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Episode 306: Tappy chats with John Sargent

Great to catch up with expatriate Kiwi trainer John Sargent who joined the Randwick training ranks seven years ago. John begins by reviewing the Goulburn win by All Things in a famous set of colours. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)