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WILL SCANS ONLY RULE OUT MELBOURNE CUP?
May 3, 2021 12:29 pm
By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor
What options remain if a horse is scanned out of the
Melbourne Cup?
According to
Racing Victoria, future racing options for a horse who fails a Melbourne Cup CT scan “would depend on what it shows.”
“Each would be assessed on its individual merits,” a spokesman said, adding that RV would communicate with international and local vets and trainers in coming weeks to “address their queries directly.”
The spokesman said RV’s major fracture policy meant horses who had suffered such an injury, and in all likelihood failed a CT scan, would be subjected to various trials and scans prior to being able to compete.
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WE NEED TO PROTECT THIS RACE
April 29, 2021 12:49 pm
By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor
Those in faraway lands crying foul about
Racing Victoria’s strict new rules for international horses, howling that it will now be just too damned hard and that overreaction has led to the creation of a giant wall, were obviously nowhere near
Flemington in the aftermath of last year’s
Melbourne Cup.
The course was eerily
COVID-empty yet there was palpable fear and anger that another foreign horse had perished in our most famous and watched sporting event. I was one of the few allowed on course for media commitments and as I left, two senior VRC officials in top hat and tails (odd, given the emptiness) stood silently at the back of the betting ring looking utterly morose.
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Gifts Of Gold Outstays The Competition In Red Sea Handicap Sponsored by:
Jockey Pat Cosgrave is thinking ahead to the Melbourne Cup after Gifts of Gold wins the Red Sea Handicap
Following the victory of sprint star Space Blues (IRE), Godolphin s day in Saudi Arabia just got even better when, at the other end of the distance spectrum stayer Gifts Of Gold (IRE) capitalized on a perfect trip in the Red Sea Turf Handicap to land the US $2.5 million contest by a length and a quarter from Spanish Mission (USA), with fellow Godolphin raider Secret Advisor (FR) running home strongly to take third.