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Podcast: John Tapp Racing
Episode: Episode 243: Lenny Beasley
Description: The former brilliant jockey discusses the higher scale of weights in the current era. He says today’s heavier jockeys get their chance to stay in the game for longer periods.
Lenny looks back on the nightmare years when he’d have to lose 4-5 kgs in a single day.
He takes us back to childhood days in Wollongong when a neighbour loaned him a little grey pony. Later he got his own pony, but it didn’t have the nicest disposition.
Lenny talks of his first indentureship at Gulgong, and his second with K...