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Podcast: John Tapp Racing
Episode: Episode 339: Pam O‘Neill
Description: The former trailblazing jockey talks of her childhood involvement with horses in the Brisbane suburb of Ascot.
Pam remembers how she bristled when trying to lead a racehorse onto Eagle Farm racecourse before having to hand it over to a male.
She recalls her first battle- the right to ride trackwork. Eventually she got the authorities to agree to the staging of ladies races only.
Pam talks of the historic Gold Coast meeting when she became the first woman to compete against men. There were a few red faces when she booted home...