Dylan joined us to discuss his weekend ahead and his career as a harness driver!
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Dylan Ford for Tasracing (6.7.24)
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Dylan Ford is a synonymous name down here in Tasmania. He's in the footy and training and driving horses, and he's having a fabulous year. It's second on the premiership with 33 winners. He's been kind enough to join us this morning. Dylan, good morning. Good morning, boys. Great to have you with us, mate. I love how you have found a spot in your life. Dylan, where you could combine two of your great loves. You coach you in the footy still. Then you wear long distance tomorrow afternoon driving. How does that work for you? Does it become too much in your life, in your family life, in your... Or is it, you know, or do you find the mix perfect and you get to, you know, do all the fun things? Oh, it's challenging, but I find a way to make the perfect balance. I see it as now that it's staying out of trouble these days. Yeah, well, that's a great way to put it. And look, you're not suffering in certain in terms of your, the premiership table. You're, you're 16 behind, Roni. Hillier, but you're having a, a good year. How's your form? You're feeling, you're feeling pretty good. I mean, form as a fluctuating thing with anything and confidence, I guess, when you're, when you're a driver, is that fair to say? Yeah, it is. You know, I mean, you've got to have the horses in form around you and I'm lucky that our table is pretty consistent. We're on base. We found a challenge from a few footy injuries that's there, down part of it, but overall form is pretty good. Yeah, with that, David made the point around, you know, driving form. I, I was thinking, as he was saying that, well, but wouldn't it largely depend on having a decent horse pulling you around as well? Uh, it does, but, um, if you make a lot of errors, you've got to be switched on at all times and, um, we're pretty lucky we don't race as often as other states, so doing forms pretty easy. Yeah, if you've got to be switched on and know what you're doing. Sorry, speaking of, of good horses, smooth, machete, uh, it's the top two-year-old Colt. Uh, last year, you've been, uh, you've, you're having some success there. Yeah, he's a nice horse. He was pretty dominant in his two-year-old season. Um, he's, he's had four or five runs back now. He's first out. It was pretty good, and then he was playing in between. Um, last night, he was much better off all the, didn't find him confident enough. Um, he's still, you know, ready to do one on 38, but, uh, he found his best form after. You got some good drives tomorrow. Um, you've got one for your mum, too. Is that right? Uh, I've got a couple for mum, but I don't think they're that good a host, but, um, come on. Come on, Tammy, I hope you will. Oh, mum, he's shattered now. Yeah, it's a strong, strong cards, right, right. There's a lot of good horses back. That's good. I've got the bow ties in a month or so. It's a lot of good horses. That's better to hit the tracks. Hey, how does a week set up for you? So, for you, you know, from a Monday morning, um, obviously you've got your coaching commitments down the valley. Um, how does it look for you? Like your early mornings, you know, that there's only a, a metre a week. Um, how does it work? Uh, so Mondays, I'm pretty lucky. We have races down there and get home late. So I have Mondays off, have a bit of sleeping before work, and then Tuesday that sort of starts off with a 350, four o'clock wake-up. Um, head of the stables and do the horses and then head off to my full-time job at, um, glass supplies. And then I venture up to need off over, which is 40 to 50 minutes away from where I'm located to do training over Tuesday and Thursday. Saturdays were normally done pretty early, so I venture back home and freshen up for 40. And how's footy going? Yeah, good. Um, we've over-achieved, I believe, in, um, the position this club was in last year. Last season's where it is now. Um, we've taken big strides and we're starting to re-sign guys for next season, and I'm currently in conversations to, to re-sign myself. So, don't last so good. Thanks for jumping out, jumping on the sporting match. You've got a full book, literally, not only on the, on the training, on the driving track, but full-time work. I wasn't, I wasn't expecting the full-time work piece in all that, Dylan, that hit me in the face that you're up at three on the horses, full-time work, up to new Norfolk. Uh, credit to you, mate, doing a great job. Have a good day tomorrow, mate. Hope you drive a couple winners. Cheers guys, thank you. Dylan Ford, join us, time now for the news.