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Podcast: John Tapp Racing
Episode: Episode 365: Sheila Laxon
Description: Thoroughly enjoyed my chat with Sheila Laxon ONZM who’s now training in tandem with her partner John Symons on the Sunshine Coast.Welsh born Sheila was riding ponies on the family farm at age three, a precursor to a fascinating life with horses.Â
She begins by recalling her first meeting with John Symons when she brought Ethereal over for the 2001 Victorian spring carnival.
Sheila says John was training a pretty good two year old colt at the time who would go on to spectacular racetrack and stud success.
She talks of life on...