The Catholic Weekly

Sydney
29 June 2003

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And they’re racing ... to help Vinnies

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And they’re racing ... to help Vinnies

Matthew Talbot hits the front as the field heads to the winning post and
it’s all over bar the shouting. But, wait, a gap has opened up for Charles
O’Neill, which is charging down the centre of the track.

Charles O’Neill draws up alongside Matthew Talbot and the two go to the line
locked together.

It’s a head-bobbing finish as the two stablemates pass the post.
Matthew Talbot, Charles O’Neill? Charles O’Neill, Matthew Talbot?
It’s anybody’s guess.

The judges can’t split them. They’ve called for the camera, a photo finish.
And it’s a dead heat. Matthew Talbot and Charles O’Neill will share the
prize.

That is, of course, the Matthew Talbot Hostel and Charles O’Neill House.
They have received a funding boost from a charity race day at Rosehill
Gardens and a gala dinner at Star City.

The First Step Charity Race Day (pictured) raised more than $65,000 for the
Matthew Talbot Hostel for the homeless, which is in Woolloomooloo, and for
Charles O’Neill House, the live-in drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre in
Surry Hills

The hostel was also the main beneficiary of the dinner in the Star City
ballroom for the 10th anniversary Stockbrokers’ Awards - the premier event
on the industry’s calendar.

Over the years the St Vincent de Paul Society has built good relationships
with its friends in the corporate and racing worlds.

And its fundraising efforts are made possible by great organising committees
made of volunteers, by event sponsors and by companies which donate raffle
prizes and auction items.

However, the Society relies on the on-going support of the community to fund
the efforts of its 20,000 volunteers who work tirelessly around the clock to
provide assistance to people in every area of need.

To find out more about the society’s fundraising events, visit www.vinnies.org.
To make a donation to its winter appeal, call 13 18 12, visit your local St
Vincent de Paul centre or make a contribution at your parish.

By the way, the next big event on the racing calendar, from the Society’s
point of view, is not the Spring Carnival, but the Night of Champions, the
annual Racehorse Owners’ Association awards in August that will again see
members of the racing fraternity share their winnings with the less fortunate.