Episode 568: Jane Clement

About this episode

Jane Clement shares her journey as a bush trainer and discusses her recent move to a new farm.

This week we catch up with another member of the “bush trainer brigade” - those remarkable people who continue to bring the very best out of horses of limited ability while paying just as much for chaff, oats and associated supplements as their city counterparts. This week’s podcast guest recently relocated from one country location to another. After many successful years at Bendemeer near Tamworth, Jane Clement and husband Rob recently moved to a 50 acre farm at Mendooran. The new location will afford Jane and Rob easy access to many western and northern meetings. The Jane Clement story makes for a very interesting podcast and we’re delighted to have her join us this week. Jane explains the reasons she chose to move out west after a lifetime at Bendemeer. She says her previous training property embraced most of the long defunct Bendemeer racecourse. Undulating terrain gave her horses a beneficial change from flat track training. Jane looks back on childhood days on the family farm at Bendemeer where horses were a major part of her life. She began riding trackwork at an early age for her maternal grandfather, the legendary Tamworth trainer Merv Corless. She talks of the lessons…

People in this episode

Guest: Jane Clement

Topics covered

• horse training
• bush trainers
• rural lifestyle
• personal stories
• horse racing

Keywords

• bush trainer
• horse racing
• Bendemeer
• Mendooran
• Tamworth
• training horses
• Akwazoff

Mentioned in this episode

Products: chaff, oats, supplements

Places: Bendemeer, Tamworth, Mendooran, Bendemeer racecourse

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