John Tapp Racing

In keeping with our nostalgia format over the holiday break, here comes one of our favourite podcasts from 2019 with much loved Sydney media icon Graham McNeice. At the time this interview was recorded, Shadow had just finished his latest documentary The Masters Apprentice- the career of legendary jockey mentor Theo Green. He says the doco had been twenty years in the making. Graham explains how a copy of The Masters Apprentice can be accessed from the website. The man’s famous nickname The Shadow is universally known around the industry. Not everybody knows how he got the tag. Graham explains. He looks back on his early life as one of six children growing up in the inner city suburb of Croydon Park where his father Syd had a butcher’s shop. Syd hoped Graham would follow in his footsteps. Syd and Marion operated another flourishing little business within the confines of the shop.  Graham talks about his father’s friendship with Frank Kennedy who was a prominent figure in the Sydney fight game. Frank late