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Former publican-cum-trainer John Marzol hasn’t looked back since swapping pints for ponies, even though it has turned his life upside down.

“I used to be falling into bed at 4am, now I’m getting up at 4am,” Marzol said.

The lifestyle change has been a welcome one for Marzol who spent 25 years in the pub industry before turning his hand to training eight years ago.

This month he celebrated his first city win when recent acquisition Code Word scored a midweek victory at Canterbury.

The gelding also appears to be enjoying the lifestyle change from a city stable to Marzol’s rural base at Moruya on the NSW south coast.

“Our stables have got yards so they can get outside and enjoy it instead of being locked up in gaol the whole time,” Marzol said.

Code Word will be striving to deliver Marzol his first Saturday win in town when he steps out in the Australis Inbound Tours and Travel Hcp (2000m) at Randwick this weekend.

“I think he’s a chance at this time of year when the better horses are out (spelling), or in Brisbane,” Marzol said.

Marzol, who has around 20 horses in work, is also a part-owner of Code Word after buying the former Gerald Ryan-prepared gelding following his unplaced run at Warwick Farm in March.

The four-year-old has started four times for Marzol managing wins at Dubbo and Canterbury and a placing at Canberra.

He was a midweek winner on the Kensington track at Randwick early in his career and was twice placed in city Saturday grade last winter.

Beautifully bred being by More Than Ready out of former good mare Vocabulary, Code Word isn’t the first tried horse Marzol has enjoyed success with.

He won the 2009 Moruya and Gundagai Cups with city castoff Regal Celeb and bought Code Word with similar hopes in mind.

“I thought he might make a nice country Cups horse,” Marzol said.

If Code Word can win at Randwick, Marzol might set his sights a little higher than his home town Cup.

“If he goes well we might look at going to Grafton, we’ll wait and see,” he said.

The Listed Grafton Cup (2350m) is on July 14.

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