Page 13: Fresh revelations in finale of Melbourne Racing Club fiasco

Two more committee members have quietly exited the Melbourne Racing Club as the fiasco continues but it’s the departing negotiations that may have some members seeing red.

Two more committee members have exited Melbourne Racing Club. Picture: David Geraghty

While Page 13 thought there couldn’t be much left in the tank regarding the Melbourne Racing Club fiasco, comes news two more committee members, Scott Davidson and Brooke Dawson, have quietly exited. But the cherry on top was Davidson’s departing negotiation with newly elected chairman John Kanga.

We hear he was granted, through gritted teeth, two years free dining at Caulfield’s exclusive on-course Black Caviar restaurant, on the dime of its hard working members.

Now that’s a lot of five-star feed to put away!

Who was the over-refreshed chief of staff in Birdcage howler?

There is always one disgraceful hangover from the Spring Carnival.

The one about the high-flying guest so into the music she just took a wee straight on the Myer marquee dance floor and kept on boogieing.

Or sniff sniff, the one about the radio executive pressing the flesh at the entrance of their Birdcage pavilion, playing host to clients and guests, with a giant ring of “white powder” crusting around her nostril.

This week the chatter was all about the overly refreshed chief of staff from one of our peak governing bodies overheard giving an almighty spray to a captain of industry in a marquee on millionaire’s row on Stakes Day.

While Flemington’s Birdcage is known as a menagerie for our peacocks to loosen up with a bit of free liquor, letting it all hang out with the flow of bubbles, in this particular case, the finger pointing and gesticulating was said to have gotten a little out of hand and she was led away.

“Downright rude” was how one onlooker described it.

And good grief, she was already on the nose given she had backed the wrong horse in the Town Hall race for the mayoralty, but we digress.

To make matters worse, upon returning she was said to have “projectile vomited” all over the marquee floor.

Now that is waking up to a grey cloud of cringe.