“I hope the newly named Vice-Admiral Andrew Mountbatten Windsor is bumped out of the line of succession for the throne,” says Ted Richards of Batemans Bay. “That would mean that I would be moved up one place from my present position of 47,863,214th.”

Speaking of bloodlines, Jim McAlpine of Moss Vale “had a small smile on Saturday morning when I checked the race fields for Randwick and saw that ‘Claim the Crown’ had been scratched.”

Sharon McGuinness of Thirroul would like to thank George Zivkovic for alluding to “the possibility of spreading a loved one’s ashes at ATC racecourses in Column 8 several weeks ago. Last Friday, 24 years after the passing of our dad, our family was finally able to fulfil his wish, on what would have been his 96th birthday, at the winning post of his favourite

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