A former director of the Australian Turf Club and vocal opponent of selling Rosehill Gardens racecourse was booted off a luxury boat cruise on which the barrier draw for the $20 million The Everest was held on Sydney Harbour.

Racing officials and wealthy slot holders for the world’s richest race on turf gathered for the glitzy on-water function on Tuesday night, among them owners of Hong Kong sprint sensation Ka Ying Rising, the favourite for Saturday’s flagship race of the Sydney spring carnival at Royal Randwick on Saturday.

But the welcome was not laid out for one attendee – prominent horse owner and breeder and Save Rosehill campaigner Julia Ritchie, who had arrived as a guest of Peter Tighe, a co-owner of retired champion racehorse Winx and Everest runner War Machine.

Ritchie, who

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