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AMBITIOUS CHIEFS CONFIDENT OF CATERING FOR SPRING CARNIVAL CROWDS
August 4, 2021 5:57 pm
By Rob Nicholson
Caulfield Cup, 20,000 at the
Cox Plate and 60,000 to each of the four days of the
Melbourne Cup carnival.
Moonee Valley chief Michael Browell and the
VRC’s boss Steve Rosich told Michael Felgate on RSN’s Racing Pulse this morning that they believe appropriate procedures to safeguard the public from COVID can be implemented to achieve their goals.
“We have our application in (to the government) for 30,000, with four zones of 7,500. We had tickets (to members) on sale on Monday and they were snapped up. We want to start the build (of infrastructure to accommodate various sections of the public) on August 31 and we are proven as an industry that we can do it (run COVID safe events),” Blanksby said.
THE HEATH BACK OPEN FOR BUSINESS – BLANKSBY
June 25, 2021 9:14 am
By Staff Writers
MRC CEO Josh Blanksby confirmed.
It is a quick turnaround for the Melbourne Racing Club who have worked tirelessly over the past 24-36 hours to make entry possible this Saturday.
The
Michael Felgate on
RSN Racing Pulse this morning with the announcement, less than 48 hours after it was previously declared that the
Neds Winter Race Day would be forced to go ahead with no crowds on course due to the slow movement from the Victorian Government on relaxing
COVID-19 protocols.
A maximum of up to 300 people will be allowed in indoor spaces, with QR codes upon entry and other Social distancing and COVID best practice applied throughout the venue.
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Sandown. Both had been dumped to the blue channel,
Sky 2.
Sandown on-time.
TAB spokesman said if a meeting runs late, it will be penalised.
Then, the time-honoured
St Leger, race six, was split with a dozy preamble over 90 seconds out from a race at
Gosford, which had a win pool of about $14,000
St Leger was over $100,000 on the
Victorian tote.
The shame about these stunts is that there are no winners, not even the country
NSW clubs whose best interests are allegedly being protected by this extended exposure on Sky 1.
Under the contracts, all
Flemington was strangled by three
NSW meetings and their contracted lead-ins.