Episode 165: Toby Edmonds

The popular Gold Coast trainer recalls the horror accident a month ago when he was slammed onto the concrete pavement by a runaway horse. Toby talks of early days in the NSW Hunter Valley and the wonderful foster family who reared him. The successful horseman looks back on his modest beginnings as a professional trainer, and one special horse who got him started. Toby talks of his move to the Gold Coast and the owner who persuaded him to become his private trainer at Warwick Farm. Edmonds has never forgotten the day he bought a certain colt for Ray Gall at the Inglis Classic sale. He actually won a race with I Am Invincible. The trainer reflects on the trauma of a positive swab which originally saw him disqualified for six months, later downgraded to a three month suspension. Toby talks of his appointment as Queensland foreman for the burgeoning Nathan Tinkler empire. He was stunned a year later when that empire collapsed, leaving him high and dry. Toby takes us through Houtzen’s career from the Magic Millions sale to the hallowed turf of Royal Ascot. The trainer acknowledges stable favourites like Tyzone, Winter Bride and promising two year old The Drinks Cart who cost his owners $2000. What a fairy tale will emerge if he wins the Magic Millions Classic.