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Podcast: John Tapp Racing
Episode: Episode 277: Tony Erhart
Description: Great to talk to Tony Erhart who could be the only 73 year old in Australia who’s still riding regular trackwork on a metropolitan racecourse. He says he’s never enjoyed it more.
He talks of his unexpected heart bypass surgery in 2014. He didn’t see it coming!
A year after his major surgery, Tony went close to becoming the oldest winning rider on a Queensland metropolitan track when he was beaten narrowly on Top Tone at Doomben.Â
Tony retired from race riding to become chief work rider for his wife Lorraine. He had bare...