Jockey

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Episode 430: Tappy chats with Michael Cahill

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Episode 430: Tappy chats with Michael Cahill

Michael Cahill had his first race ride on Red Affro at an obscure race meeting at Gooloogong in 1979. The horse ran second but Michael says he was beaten by pilot error. Since then he’s ridden with great skill to land a stunning total of 2600 winners in 4 jurisdictions. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS.)

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Episode 425: Tappy chats with Belinda Hodder

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Episode 425: Tappy chats with Belinda Hodder

The popular north coast jockey knew something was wrong the moment she hit the ground in the early part of a Port Macquarie track gallop in April. She’d been back in the saddle for just three weeks following a lengthy break for the birth of her first baby. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS.)

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Episode 418: Tappy chats with Cejay Graham

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Episode 418: Tappy chats with Cejay Graham

This is a breezy chat with a little lady who has endeared herself to many in just six years as a professional jockey. She’s based at Port Macquarie and is a regular at most meetings in the region. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

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Episode 417: Tappy chats with Paul Jarman

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Episode 417: Tappy chats with Paul Jarman

When we wound up our podcast with Stan Aitken last September he suggested we should consider talking to his great mate and former fellow Melbourne jockey Paul Jarman. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

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Episode 409: Tappy chats with Robbie Fradd

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Episode 409: Tappy chats with Robbie Fradd

Understandably Robbie Fradd is going through a tough period of adjustment as he comes to terms with the reality of an enforced retirement. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS.)

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Episode 408: Tappy chats with Dennis Firth

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Episode 408: Tappy chats with Dennis Firth

When Harry Troy sang the praises of Dennis Firth in a podcast last year, I made it my business to track down the former 16 time western districts premiership winner. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

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Episode 407: Tappy chats with Christian Reith

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Episode 407: Tappy chats with Christian Reith

Christian Reith was riding winners everywhere when a Newcastle race fall in April of last year left him with vertebrae fractures. Only a week earlier he’d ridden a winning treble at Goulburn. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

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Episode 402: Tappy chats with Kevin Langby

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Episode 402: Tappy chats with Kevin Langby

I’ve had several requests for a podcast with Kevin Langby. Rather than try to explain he was on the show two years ago, let’s put him on again. Nothing’s changed. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS.)

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Episode 401: Tappy chats with Anna Roper

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Episode 401: Tappy chats with Anna Roper

She’s disappointed, frustrated and very bored. Anna Roper still can’t believe a freak accident at Muswellbrook in November has halted an amazing trot that brought her 56 wins in seven months. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS.)

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Episode 399: Tappy chats with Allan Denham

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Episode 399: Tappy chats with Allan Denham

Allan Denham’s intention to quit the training ranks was known only to family and a handful of close friends. Fittingly he went out on a winning note when Adios Steve won a BM 64 at Hawkesbury on June 30th 2022.

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Episode 397: Tappy chats with Nick Heywood

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Episode 397: Tappy chats with Nick Heywood

If there’s a single positive about Nick Heywood’s current injury layoff, it’s the fact that we were able to pin him down for an interview. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

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Episode 392: Tappy chats with Larry Olsen

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Episode 392: Tappy chats with Larry Olsen

Who better to join us at Melbourne Cup time than former jockey Larry Olsen who joined the chosen few when he won the 1987 Cup on Kensei. (CLICK IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

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Episode 390: Tappy chats with Nick Souquet

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Episode 390: Tappy chats with Nick Souquet

Punters and racing fans who follow southern districts racing are familiar with the name of Nick Souquet. The veteran jockey has been a fixture down south for all of his thirty years in the saddle. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS.)

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Episode 387: Tappy chats with Stan Aitken

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Episode 387: Tappy chats with Stan Aitken

Nineteen years have passed since Stan Aitken called time on his successful riding career. The multiple Gr 1 winning jockey continued to work in the racing industry as a groundsman for the Ballarat Race Club until his retirement a few years ago. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

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Episode 383: Tappy chats with John Wade

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Episode 383: Tappy chats with John Wade

I caught up with John Wade at the recent Jockeys Reunion and the idea of a podcast immediately sprang to mind. He’s not the kind of bloke to talk about his many achievements in the saddle, but happily I was able to pin him down. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

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Episode 375: Tappy chats with Chad Lever

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Episode 375: Tappy chats with Chad Lever

Chad Lever’s sudden disappearance from the riding ranks last September mystified trainers, punters and friends. The popular jockey had been juggling a huge workload for several years. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

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Episode 372: Tappy chats with Rachael Murray

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Episode 372: Tappy chats with Rachael Murray

Great to catch up with the girl who left her busy father a note to ask for her first pony. Robert Murray agreed, and the first stone was laid on the path to his daughter’s career as a respected professional jockey. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)

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Episode 364: Tappy chats with Brooke Stower

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Episode 364: Tappy chats with Brooke Stower

Despite missing the first month of the current racing season, Brooke Stower finds herself in 15th spot on the NSW jockey’s premiership ladder with over three months to go. (CLICK IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS.)

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Episode 362: Tappy chats with John Hutchings

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Episode 362: Tappy chats with John Hutchings

John Hutchings was one of the most gifted country jockeys of his generation. Between the mid 1960’s and mid 1990’s John rode 1470 winners and won nine jockey’s apprenticeships, three of them while still an apprentice. (CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS)