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Podcast: John Tapp Racing
Episode: Episode 300: Robert Thompson OAM
Description: To mark our 300th podcast episode we present a chat with record breaking jockey Robert Thompson who sits on 4447 Australian winners as this interview is posted. He’s still riding at age 63, but has greatly reduced his workload.
He talks of the huge benefits of the higher weight scale these days.
Rob talks of life on the farm at Cessnock and his love of cattle.
The veteran jockey takes us back to the day he rode his 4000th winner- a BM60 at Newcastle on a little horse called Lay Down The Law. He reme...