Tara Talks Racing Episode 5

Tara Madgwick - Sunday October 6

We’re getting into the swing of things in podcast land so here we go again in a new episode where we talk racing and how it relates to breeding, listen in to Craig “Clocker’ Tompson and Tara Madgwick each week during spring as we talk about the past weekend where we saw the first of the new season juveniles – what do you think about two year-old racing? it seems to polarise people inside and outside of racing.

Gai and Adrian had the trifecta in the G3 Breeders Plate for the second year in a row with king Kirk leading the way - image Steve Hart

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