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Tommy Smith dominated Sydney racing for over three decades, winning the Sydney Trainers' Premiership every year between and Smith yearned to be a famous jockey and as a youth won many races for his father at the picnic races. Smith rode as a jockey until he was age 20, but he was never very good. When weight became a problem he took to hurdle racing, but a bad fall, with a broken hip ending his riding career.

Smith became a trainer, acquiring his licence in His first success came in with Bragger, a rogue horse he bought from Wagga property owner, Mack Sawyer. He broke in the horse, and named him using his own nickname. Smith also registered the racing silks of green and blue vertical stripes, which were to become famous in later years as the colours of Tulloch Lodge horses.

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He rented horse boxes in Kensington, housing Bragger in one box, while he lived in the other. According to Bill Whittaker, Smith won the nomination fee for Bragger by winning at two-up. Bragger won 13 races including Smith's first Group 1 winner in the Railway Quality, establishing him as a Sydney trainer.