Kevin Kiley is a welcome and familiar face in Tathra these days.
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For the past five years, the owner of Noah’s Thoroughbred Racing Pigs has brought his banter and brood to the town for the busy Christmas break.
He’s there to entertain holiday makers and locals alike, but also to help raise funds for the local community.
He runs about 100 race meets a year, travelling “anywhere from Cairns to Hobart” from Noah’s Farm home base near Warwick in south-east Queensland.
The pigs are known to play up for the crowd – “I call them crowd-activated” – gathering at the bugle call and running as fast as their little legs will carry them through an obstacle course to find a bucket of sweetened milk, with crowds numbering in the hundreds cheering them on.
As a result of the crowd participation – prodded along by Mr Kiley’s repartee – as well as other fundraising activities at each event, Mr Kiley said he reckons he’s helped raise around $4million for charity and community organisations since starting his touring troupe of trotters on Melbourne Cup Day in 2000.
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