By MIKE DILLON
Nigel Tiley is considering once again setting up training in New Zealand after an absence of 2 1/2 years.
Tiley closed his Takanini stable in June 1998 to set up a training base in Macau, and prepared 47 winners there before returning to New Zealand in October.
His priority since then has been spending time with his two children, who had remained in Auckland.
Tiley said he would be weighing up his options in the next few weeks. He had an application to renew his trainer's licence sitting in his drawer, but had not filled it out yet.
"The reason I didn't do anything about it when I first came back is that I gave a commitment to the kids that I'd be there for them during the six weeks of the school holidays.
"Once you start training you can't do it properly unless you give it everything, and I couldn't do that and be with the children as well.
"During the holidays I've been camping and spending all the time I could with them and now I'm ready to start doing something."
Tiley said that if he started training again, it would be on a limited basis.
"I'll only do a small team, with perhaps a few outside horses."
He bought a Turbulent Dancer colt at the Karaka sales, and heads to the Adelaide sales at the weekend.
As a jockey, Tiley rode successfully overseas, first in Singapore/Malaysia, then Sydney and Hong Kong between 1982 and 1993. He returned to New Zealand to start a training career when he retired from the saddle.
He won the New Zealand Derby at Ellerslie in 1994 with Look Who's Talking4.
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