“I thought I would leave the industry with Jared but my brother snagged me pretty quickly to come across and ride a bit of work,” Alisha recalls.
“That led to a full-time job with him and Jared bought back Pepperdine with Clinton training the horse.
“I was riding Pepperdine in work and my brother eventually suggested that I have a crack at training him myself.
“It all came about from there so I could muck around with a couple myself.”
According to Racing And Sports’ statistics, Wehlow prepared 367 winners across his time in racing, which included multiple victories around South East Queensland when he travelled horses south.
In the 2022-23 campaign, he prepared 49 winners, which was a season high across the last decade, at a tick over 20 per cent winning strike-rate.
Before going into training, Alisha enjoyed a strong career in the saddle across Queensland.