I was thrilled to meet David Taggart for the first time at the recent Sydney premiere of the “J. Mac Story”. Like many Aussie racing fans, I was well acquainted with his story.

The first bloke to give me a wrap for the talents of Justin Sheehan was John O’Shea. It was 2000 and John’s solo training career had just begun at Warwick Farm.

Col Hodges’ absence from western districts race meetings of late has been a talking point among his legion of friends.

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.

Eighteen year old apprentice Jett Newman had a huge number of trial rides before being signed up by northern rivers trainer Matt Dunn.

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.

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 as stable foreman for his very respected trainer/dad.

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 jockey in 1959 and 1961.