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Podcast: John Tapp Racing
Episode: Episode 270: Leon Fox
Description: Great to catch up with 78 year old Leon Fox now in retirement in his hometown of Inverell. Leon trained horses for 20 years following a stellar riding career which saw him dubbed the “George Moore of the bush”.
Leon begins by paying tribute to his father Les Fox to whom he was apprenticed. He talks of his ordinary effort on the occasion of his first race ride, and the thrill of his first win in a little border town called Texas.
He talks of a very successful apprenticeship and the approaches he got from Sydney trainers who...