I read the respected Dr Fulton's letter with interest. Indeed, I read the article fully to glean whether the headline was to be proven true.

In my opinion, it did not hold true as the Ballarat Cup remained clean.

The Courier has given the racing industry some wonderful free advertising and promotion through Tim O'Connor's punting adventures. In itself, I find this a most controversial inclusion.

Annually, Fiona Henderson points out really strongly the chronic problems that our region has with gambling.

At least the post race day summary does record the initial outlay so that readers can deduce that the adventures, thus far, are actually losses.

Your coverage of Andrew Dark is a bright, good news story. Indeed his employers provided a wonderful cricket train from Etihad last night that had no similarities with the Mumbai Express.

Please keep covering regional happenings as best you can.