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Podcast: John Tapp Racing
Episode: Episode 164: Gordon Spinks (Part 2)
Description: In the second segment the champion jockey looks back on his first Group 1 winner as a fully fledged jockey- again provided by T.J.Smith.
Gordon pays tribute to Black Onyx, a great sprinter of the early seventies who gave him a Doomben $10,000 win.
He looks back on his retainer as number two jockey for the powerful Stan Fox stable at Rosehill. He talks of his admiration for the stable’s number one rider, the legendary Athol Mulley.
Gordon talks of a working holiday in England where he rode for leading trainer Sam Ar...