Dean Chapple to race at Broken Hill Harness Racing Club

"It is something I have always wanted to do," Chapple, who has three runners engaged at the meeting, said.

"It might turn out to be the biggest regret of my life but we are going to have some fun. The next on the bucket list will be the Canola Cup later in the year.

"Dave [Walters] really took it all on board and booked us into a motel a couple of weeks back - can't believe it has become real - it is something I have wanted to do for a while."

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While competing at the Broken Hill meeting will see Chapple tick an item off his bucket list, he won't just be racing.

He plans to do at little family history on the way.

"My sister Linda got married at Wilcannia and lived out here for years," Chapple said.

"She has moved now but I will be taking some pictures to send back to her for sure."

Leaving wife Julie with children Elly and Jack back home at Moonbi to look after the remaining 13 other horses in the stable, Chapple is completing his mission to Broken Hill with Walters.

The Tamworth resident is a part owner of Nor Westa, along with Mick McIlroy of Tamworth, who has drawn the seven barrier in the Getting There Excavations Pace.

Chapple's other runners are Don't Tell Dorothy, who has drawn the six barrier, in the Mawson Concrete & Quarries Pace and Right On With It in the $16,000 Rocky Baker Memorial Pacing Cup from barrier nine.

"The draws haven't been good to me at all but we look like we are following horses that will go forward," Chapple said.

"Right On With It has been in every cat and dog fight lately - he was in the Gold Nugget, the Dash race at Tamworth back in January. He has drawn awkward."

With a handful of committed harness enthusiasts, the Broken Hill meetings always present a good night of racing and with the smaller track having a circumference of 602 metres and the home straight just 84 metres, Chapple is not phased.

"I know it is a small track compared to what we are used to but I grew up racing on the old Newcastle track and the Maitland track and I have done plenty of show racing so it's not new to me," Chapple said.

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