Nothing beats that sweet taste of winning for Warnock!

05 September 2024
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Victorian hobby trainer James Warnock was bitten by the harness racing bug when, in the late 1970s, he watched the construction of the state-of-the-art Beckley Park, at Geelong.

The Scottish native was a keen soccer player in his early years, but said he was lured to harness racing after knee surgery in his late 20s.

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