[3] The main cast was Mitchell Faircloth as Slim Whittle, John Rothfield as Dr.
Turf and Tony Rickards as Con Marasco.
[2] The show grew out of a 1980 racing tips segment on a morning sports show that featured Simon Thorpe and Rickards as Vince and Con Marasco.
Faircloth joined them and they got their own show[4] which began in 1981[5] by Thorpe, Rickards and Faircloth, with Rothfield joining as a special guest and soon moving up to being a regular.
[6] Other cast members have included Jason van de Velde as Trevor Marmalade, Tracy Harvey as Tammy Whittle, Graeme Sefton as Young Graeme and David Shephard as Yonny Stone.