Twelve years after a serious back injury trainer Ricky Watt still needs morphine to get him through the day.

But it won't stop him from achieving a lifelong ambition of having a starter in a city meeting.

Along with his son Ricky Jnr, Watt will make a nine-hour round trip from Parkes in central west NSW to run Tyson's Tiger in the Hyland Race Colours Handicap

And Watt is not the only comeback story.

The horse has also returned to the track after injuring both suspensory ligaments two years ago.

The six-year-old gelding returned in autumn this year last after 18 months pent up in a small paddock.

Watt slipped a disc hopping off the ladder of a loader truck he drove for the council and it took three operations to get his training licence back.

"I'm actually riding my own work again, believe it or not," Watt, 45, said laying down at his Parkes home.

He takes a daily dose of morphine and lies down after each ride but after battling depression in his break from training, Watt is chuffed to be back in the saddle.

"The more I do, the more I hurt. That's the injury I've got," he said.

"But you've got no idea how good it is to be back."

Watt fancies his chances at Warwick Farm on Wednesday after Tyson's Tiger won his last start in Dubbo.

"He's only a little horse, he's probably only 14 hands," he said.

"But he's well-named. He's got the heart of a tiger."

Watt and his son will leave Parkes for Warwick Farm in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

"I've never been there before so I've got to ask someone if they've got a box to put the horse in," he said.

Watt nearly scratched Tyson's Tiger before the Dubbo win because of a slightly high temperature.

He has set the horse for a return to the city at Canterbury after Wednesday's race.

"I know how much improvement's in this horse," he said.

"If he doesn't run well, it's my fault, I've missed something.

"But I've left no stone unturned."