Victoria Racing Club

VRC Maintains Hope For Carnival Crowds

Posted on August 5, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Victoria Racing Club chairman Neil Wilson is still hoping minimal crowds can attend the Melbourne spring carnival and the club is making plans around this scenario. Wilson said the VRC had been working on a number of contingencies in response to the COVID-19 situation but they had the advantage of Flemington being a huge package[...]

Posted on June 24, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Former Fremantle Dockers chief executive Steve Rosich has been announced as the new chief executive of the Victoria Racing Club. Rosich will join the VRC in September and transition into the chief executive role currently held by Neil Wilson before taking over after the Melbourne Cup carnival in November. Wilson will then assume the role[...]

Posted on June 23, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Racing Victoria CEO Giles Thompson is hoping patrons will still be allowed on-course by the end of July, but admits it’s less likely because of the latest coronavirus spike in the state. Owners returned to the racetrack at Ballarat on Tuesday and it was hoped members and spectators would be back in July after restrictions[...]

Posted on June 5, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Racing Victoria has rejected a proposal to make sweeping changes to the 2020 spring carnival. In a Melbourne Racing Club-backed move, plans were tabled to shift the Caulfield Cup from a traditional mid-October date to a late November timeslot. The proposal would have upended decades of thoroughbred racing tradition by running the Caulfield Cup after[...]

Posted on May 28, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Racing Victoria says its has two options it is exploring for the programming of Melbourne’s spring carnival races. The Melbourne Racing Club has told RV it wants to transfer the Caulfield Cup from its traditional mid-October date to the end of November. Such a move would result in a dramatic overhaul of the spring carnival.[...]

Posted on May 26, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Lindsay Park senior trainer David Hayes believes the further the Melbourne spring carnival can move away from winter the better it will be for horses. Hayes, who is moving to Hong Kong next month and trains in partnership with son Ben and nephew Tom Dabernig, does not see the need to alter the order of[...]

Posted on May 26, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Trainer Danny O’Brien would like to see the whole spring carnival shifted and the Melbourne Cup run in the first week of December. A major overhaul could be on the agenda with the Melbourne Racing Club (MRC) exploring the option of moving its Caulfield carnival, including the Caulfield Cup, from mid-October to the end of[...]

Posted on May 21, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Trainer Grahame Begg would like a quick resolution to possible changes for the Victorian spring so he can map out a proper carnival program for his team. While the Victoria Racing Club is steadfast in not changing the date of the Melbourne Cup carnival and the Moonee Valley Racing Club is keen to run the[...]

Posted on May 1, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

The handicap conditions for a number of winter series races at Flemington have been changed to cater for higher quality horses. With travel restrictions in place and a reduced number of feature races in Queensland during the winter carnival because of the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, all the races on Flemington Finals Day on[...]

Posted on April 22, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Trainer Danny O’Brien will use staying races on his home track at Flemington for his bid to defend Vow And Declare’s Melbourne Cup crown. The first of those is Saturday’s William Newton VC Handicap (2600m) which leads to the Andrew Ramsden Stakes (2800m) at Flemington on May 16. O’Brien is hopeful the Victoria Racing Club[...]

Posted on April 1, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

The Victoria Racing Club is determined to run the Melbourne Cup this year, even if it is held behind closed doors due to the coronavirus pandemic. The commitment comes after Moonee Valley Racing Club’s chief executive Michael Browell said his club would consider not staging the 100th running of Cox Plate this year if it[...]

Posted on March 31, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Victoria Racing Club chief executive Neil Wilson will be the next chairman of the club, but when he takes over has not been decided. The VRC Board met on Friday to give Wilson the green light as chairman, but for the time being he will remain as chief executive to guide the club through the[...]

Posted on March 28, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

The Victoria Racing Club is to stand down most of its staff for a month and reduce the hours worked by it’s executives amid the coronavirus pandemic. The VRC, which holds the Melbourne Cup carnival at Flemington, says staff will be asked from Monday to take any outstanding annual leave and can also access long[...]

Posted on February 15, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Black Caviar has dragged the Flemington crowd from the grandstands at her first race track appearance since her retirement after an unbeaten 25 start career. Now age 13 and the mother of six foals, the mare was on parade at the Black Caviar The Great Horse themed race day on Saturday. The meeting featured the[...]

Posted on February 14, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Luke Nolen has cherished memories of his association with Black Caviar and the jockey marvels at the condition of the retired champion almost seven years after her last race. Nolen has been reunited with the great mare in the past two days, with the now 13-year-old Black Caviar in Melbourne to make a special appearance[...]

Posted on February 11, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Undefeated champion Black Caviar is to return to Flemington on the race day named in her honour. The mare will be paraded in the Flemington mounting yard before the Group One Black Caviar Lightning Stakes on Saturday. Black Caviar will be reunited with her ownership group, Pam and Barry Hawkes, Gary and Kerrin Wilkie, David[...]

Posted on February 9, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

A victory by Melbourne’s premier jockey Craig Williams in the final race has given the metropolitan jockeys’ team a last-gasp win at the first Rapid Racing meeting at Flemington. The Victoria Racing Club trialled the format on Sunday with the meeting held in a twilight timeslot with 30 minute gaps between the seven races up[...]

VRC Maintains Hope For Carnival Crowds

Steve Rosich To Take Over Reins At The VRC

Coronavirus Hiccup Hits Race Club Members

Victorian Spring Carnival Dates Unchanged

RV Reveal Options For 2020 Spring Carnival

Push Entire Spring Carnival Back: Hayes

Changes Ahead To Melbourne Spring Carnival

Spring Uncertainty Puts Begg Plans On Hold

Flemington Finals Day Conditions Changed

Flemington Assignment For Vow And Declare

VRC Planning For Melbourne Cup In November

VRC Board Ticks Off On New Chairman

VRC To Stand Staff Down Over Covid-19

Flemington Salutes Champion Black Caviar

Black Caviar Set For Flemington Appearance

Black Caviar To Attend Lightning Stakes

Metro Jockeys Win At Rapid Racing Meeting

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