Director of leading advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi - Sharon Skeggs - has been elected to the Australian Jockey Club committee. According to an AAP report, Skeggs is just the second woman after Julia Ritchie to secure a place on the committee. The still-serving Ritchie broke new ground when she was elected five years ago.

Skeggs has been the recipient of a number of strategic marketing awards [both in Australia and London] and her appointment can only mean good things for the AJC's marketing division (which is responsible for - amongst other things - the promotion of the Easter carnival at Randwick).

Max Presnell also wrote in a column titled "All great visions come at a price" on May 30 this year that "Skeggs has an ambition that the [other candidates] find difficult to match. She hankers to be a clerk of the course and ride out with Mick Stanley on race day".