If Australia's most famous former mistress, Shari Lea Hitchcock, was looking for a distraction from the heady few months she's just endured, she can at least take heart that her horses are firing on the track.
The one-time lover of king of the boxes, the late Dick Pratt, makes a star appearance in our sister column, Bloodlines, on Friday (hey, we have expansive reading habits), celebrating the recent successes of the horses she trains and breeds, Duchess Royale and Stormborn Angel.