LIFE’S getting tough for small country trainers looking for a regular start with their horses.

This means they work harder, travel further and turn up at small non-TAB bush meetings just to get a run.

But that didn’t stop Swan Hill’s Helen Burns racking up a good win and a second from three starters at the weekend.

Although it required a 460km round trip to Berrigan in NSW to win a $14,00...