Sinclair in a league of his own

FORMER racing editor of The Courier-Mail Bart Sinclair is one of five inductees into the Racing Queensland Hall of Fame.

Sinclair, who worked at the newspaper from 1988-2012 and is now racing manager for the Brisbane Racing Club, was honoured at the Queensland Thoroughbred Awards in Brisbane last night.

Other Hall of Fame inductees included a champion racehorse from the early 1900s, Molly’s Robe, jockey Fred Shean, trainer Con Doyle and associate Ceb Barnes.

RQ said Sinclair, who also analysed racing on radio and television broadcasts for many years and was racing editor of The Daily Sun newspaper from 1982-88, was “one of Queensland’s greatest ambassadors for racing’’.

In June, Sinclair was awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for services to racing. Sinclair’s father Andrew “Barty” Sinclair, who trained the 1963 Stradbroke winner Mullala, and his mother Joan led him to a life in the racing industry.

Trainer Tony Gollan, jockey Jeff Lloyd and the Liam Birchley-trained Crack Me Up took home the major awards.