Category: Mental Health

Clowns in the Circus Mental Health Racism

You Can’t Call Footy Players Monkeys, and Quite Rightly Too – So Why Do We Continue to Call Redheads Apes?

by : peterprofitracing

‘Ranga’ is an abbreviation of ‘orangutan’. Used mostly in Australia, the word has gradually spread across the world and has now been adopted to refer to all redheads. It’s thought that is began being used as a derogatory word around the 1990s in Australia school yards. https://gingerparrot.co.uk/ginger-dictionary/ranga-definition/ Bazza McKeown my ginger haired associate and friend […]

Mental Health Racing

What a Brilliant Initiative

by : peterprofitracing

Huge congratulations to Racing NSW and its Racing Mates program leader Pat Webster, trainer of the former Group 1 star Happy Clapper. Horse racing is a terribly tough game, and the pressures on participants are enormous. It’s the reason that we can all name a trainer or rider who has died from an overdose or […]

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