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Podcast: John Tapp Racing
Episode: Episode 376: Norm Gardner
Description: Great to catch up with a horseman whose name appears regularly among winning trainers at Southern Districts meetings, and occasionally in the city. Students believe Norm Gardner’s strike rate in recent years is a very healthy one. We talk to Norm about some of his recent winners, and the disadvantage of training horses in the bitter Canberra winters.
Norm talks of retired Canberra jockey Kevin Sweeney who knew it was cold when ice gathered on his eyebrows during trackwork.
The trainer talks of his stabling accommodation at Canberra’s Thoroughbred Park training complex, and his...