Tommy Woodcock first worked as an apprentice jockey for Barney Quinn, who was based at Randwick, New South Wales.
It was in this way that he met trainer Harry Telford and his horse Phar Lap, widely regarded as the greatest Australian racehorse of all time.
Woodcock trained Phar Lap and he won the rich Agua Caliente Handicap.
On 21 January 1931, Tommy Woodcock married Emma Jane Bone at St Stephen’s Presbyterian Church in Sydney.
Tommy Woodcock died at Yarrawonga on 27 April 1985, aged 79, where he was cared for in his last years by his lifelong friends, the Hinchliffe family.