It will be an emotional moment for veteran trainer Garry Dickson and connections of Proximate Cause if the five-year-old gelding can conjure another win at Townsville on Thursday.

Terry Butts is being remembered as a passionate life-long racing man following his passing in North Queensland over the weekend.

Veteran Townsville trainers Terry Butts and Garry Dickson have linked arms to plan a winter carnival program for promising sprinter Proximate Cause, who returned to winning form at Cluden Park on Saturday.

Cleo’s Poet - the horse that brought veteran trainer Terry Butts out of retirement - will continue his quest to give the former journalist his second Townsville Cup winner.

Terry Butts to visit Cleo’s Poet in the State’s south-east.