John Tapp Racing

Great to catch up with trainer Nick Olive who looks like surviving yet another Canberra winter. Nick takes us back to the fateful day when his father took him and brother Tim to a Canberra race meeting. He says the die was cast on that very day. The trainer talks of his recent Covid 19 isolation. Nick agrees with some fellow ACT trainers who don’t wish to train anywhere else despite some concerning insurance issues under the ACT Government. He talks of his manageable team of 20-25 horses. Nick remembers childhood days when he’d help a local thoroughbred trainer before reporting for school. He talks of subsequent learning stints with a leading Rosehill trainer, and a now famous thoroughbred stud. Olive talks of a two year experience at the Orange Agricultural Institute- a promise he made to his parents. Nick talks of his first serious job under the tutelage of respected trainer Ken Callaghan. He explains the circumstances surrounding an accident that frightened the daylights out of him. He says it could have b