Bolte, who resented poker machines but maintained a deep love of racing, warned officials that if horses were held back from doing their best or treated with narcotics, the promised rivers of gold that a TAB could provide would fadeinto a "good idea at the time".
"If you want running rails, grandstands and prizemoney, then you [the Victoria Racing Club] must stop these cheats in their tracks and at the same time I will get the police to run illegal SP bookmakers out of town," he said.
So what happened to HRV. To them was it just "a good idea at the time"..????