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Podcast: John Tapp Racing
Episode: Episode 424: Todd Smart
Description: Great to catch up with an ever enthusiastic Todd Smart who’s based at Canberra’s Thoroughbred Park with his fifteen horse team. A welder by trade, Todd graduated from bull riding to thoroughbreds when he sustained a serious shoulder injury. He’s sure it was meant to happen. He talks of early mornings in the bleak Canberra winters.
Todd says he began his training career at Wagga but was talked into a move to Canberra by a fellow trainer.
He talks of his early life in Gundagai and early education on his favourite pony.
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