Far North Queensland’s leading owner Tom Hedley – the controversial businessman and hotelier who ten years ago told the liquidator of his companies that collapsed owing $350 000 that all he had left was just $28 000 in cash, a $69 000 tax refund, a share in a horse and a house – owned 2 horses in the Open class race at Townsville yesterday, both of them trained by his man Roy Chillemi at his stables on the main road at Tolga, a little out of the way and out of sight town just down the road from Atherton.
A Race Rort in Townsville – Here Stewards, This is Where You Look to Find It