“You can’t afford to be distracted by the power of a major stable”, says Victorian harness trainer Kari Males. “If you happen to be in a race where a major stable has three or four runners, you have to try even harder to have your horse at one hundred and ten per cent”.

I enjoyed every minute of a long chat I had last week, with South Australian race driving ace Danielle Hill. It became clear during our long conversation, that Dani’s return to the track following a horror fall in 2010, was motivated largely by an unbridled passion for horses.