You don’t see too many $61.00 “pops” generating ovations like the one Rothfire and Brad Rawiller got after the recent Doomben $10,000.

Simon Price hasn’t ridden in a race for five years but still spends plenty of time in the saddle.

The girls have had an extraordinary impact on Australian racing in recent years. A current emerging talent is twenty five year old Coriah Keatings who just recently won her first race at black type level.

Andrew Gluyas had a huge pair of shoes to fill in July of 2023 when he took over the running of French Cotton Lodge at Morphettville.

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.

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.

Blake Spriggs answered immediately when I tried his mobile number one day last week.

The Jane Clement story makes for a very interesting podcast and we’re delighted to have her join us this week.

Richard Litt’s entry into the Sydney training ranks materialised under very sad circumstances.

The enormous genetic influences in Kerrin McEvoy’s background were obvious from a tender age.

Ashlee Grives nee Siejka left a big imprint on the NSW race driving scene with an impressive tally of 800 winners. She trained many of them in her own right.

Lee Magorrian had never been on a horse’s back when he got a stablehand’s job with Joe Byrne in his native County Meath in 2009.

With his team of gallopers now in single digits, Terry Robinson has few city runners these days.