David McColm’s handling of media commitments after the 2024 Kosciuszko won him many friends. It was well documented that his talented horse Far Too Easy had endured several setbacks. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

The story of the Freedman era is one of racing’s all time best - four enthusiastic young brothers who made an amazing journey from the family stud farm at Yass to the establishment of a Victorian based training powerhouse. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

A hat trick of recent country wins by improving gelding My Last Hooray rekindled memories of Frank Cleary’s glory days in Australian racing. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

Five years ago Scott Singleton found that he was spending much more time on the road to country race meetings than he was at city and provincial meetings. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

The Karen Owen story had potential podcast written all over it from the moment I interviewed her after a recent Randwick win with Fay’s Angels. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

Always a pleasure to catch up with the bush trainers. Our podcast guest this week is Albury’s Ron Stubbs whose reputation precedes him. (CLICK ON THE IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

The Gosford racing precinct has never had a better ambassador than Angela Davies. The amiable trainer was born and reared in a cottage opposite the racecourse float entrance and hasn’t strayed far since. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

The Australian Turf Club moved swiftly to honour Betty Lane Holland following the passing of the trailblazing horse trainer on October 22nd at the remarkable age of 97.

For the first few years of their training partnership Robert and Luke Price worked individually - Robert at Turpentine Park, a spelling and pre-training property at Cambewarra while Luke was based at the partnership’s Kembla stables. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

It was great to catch up with John Wallace recently for the first time in several years. The veteran trainer has a great passion for the racing game, and it shows in his all too rare interviews. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

Everybody wanted a piece of champion trainer Leon Macdonald when he saddled his final runners at Morphettville on July 29th, and we were on the list. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

Always nice to catch up with one of the many young hopefuls trying to establish themselves in the training ranks. The hours are long and the disappointments are many. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

Great to catch up with an ever enthusiastic Todd Smart who’s based at Canberra’s Thoroughbred Park with his fifteen horse team.

Great to catch up with a lady who’s more than making up for her late start in racing. Connie dabbled with show horses during the decade in which she worked as Bakery Manager at Woolworths Emu Plains. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

This is an interesting chat with a 43 year old from Foxton on New Zealand’s north island who’s been around thoroughbreds all his life. He started life as an apprentice jockey under the tutelage of Kevin Gray. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

It would have been a massive shock to his family had Cody Morgan not pursued a career with horses. With a mum and dad who were wizards in the saddle and a brother who could ride a rampaging rhinoceros… (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

Luke Pepper joins the ranks of smaller trainers who only need the right horse to showcase their talents. Until Opal Ridge came along Luke had been achieving consistent results with average horses. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

It was around 2008 when Grant Williams started to tinker with the odd thoroughbred. Prior to that he’d enjoyed a distinguished 20 year career in harness racing as a trainer and driver. (CLICK IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

After a wonderfully successful decade training from his Murwillumbah base, Matt Dunn surprised a few people when he elected to open a metropolitan stable. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

Great to catch up with a horseman whose name appears regularly among winning trainers at Southern Districts meetings, and occasionally in the city. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)