John Tapp Racing

Ian begins by looking back on his emotion- charged final day of calling at Gosford in 2009.  He recalls his final metropolitan race call at Randwick just five days earlier. The former ace broadcaster talks about the post racing life of retired callers like Bryan Martin and Greg Miles. Ian talks of school days at Sydney Grammar, and the difficulties associated with having the same name as a previous Australian cricket captain. He looks back on his introduction to race broadcasts when laid up with rheumatic fever as a child. When the time came to enter the workforce, most expected young Ian to join his father’s tailoring business. Instead he started off with the Stamina Clothing Company. Ian remembers a Richmond Greyhound Racing Club advertisement which led him into the race calling field. He looks back on the days of the huge Granville Showground trotting gymkhanas where several callers gained their starts. Ian kicked off in the bushes at the back of the track. He’s never forgotten his very first paid