Samuel Richard Heseltine (c. 1849 – 19 December 1920) was a riverboat captain, businessman, and a longtime secretary of the Adelaide Racing Club.
Gus (Augustus Frederick Heseltine) fell from Menindie and was drowned near Overland Corner on 26 April 1879.
The prime motivation for these two leaders was always for the welfare of the club, and were largely responsible for its high reputation with the public.
He was a reliable, honorable, loyal and trustworthy servant of the club, and was in every way qualified to discharge the duties of a racing secretary.
[3] He was succeeded as club secretary by Hiram Wentworth Varley (died 1927),[4] then in 1927 by his son, also named Samuel Richard Heseltine.