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Racing Victoria represents the Victorian Thoroughbred industry in dealings with bodies such as the Australian Racing Board, and is responsible for the marketing of Victorian Thoroughbred racing. The constitutional objectives of Racing Victoria include: Ensuring that race meetings are managed and conducted to the highest integrity.
There were plans for Desert Hero to race in the Melbourne Cup and he had received first acceptance and Racing Victoria's pre-quarantine tests, [11] but it was decided not to enter him in order to rest him after the St Leger Stakes race as well as to allow him to mature more. [12]
The Melbourne Cup is an annual Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race held in Melbourne, Australia, at the Flemington Racecourse.It is a 3200-metre race for three-year-olds and older, conducted by the Victoria Racing Club that forms part of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival.
The 1861 Melbourne Cup was a two-mile handicap horse race which took place on Thursday, 7 November 1861. [1]This year was the first running of the Melbourne Cup. [1] Fifty-seven horses were nominated and there were 21 acceptances.
After the racecourse grandstand burned to the ground in 1947 the racing club amalgamated with the privately owned Victorian Trotting and Racing Association to become the Melbourne Racing Club and moved the event to Sandown Racecourse. [3] In 1963 the racing club merged with the Victoria Amateur Turf Club and the club changed the name of the event.
The Victoria Racing Club was founded in 1864. [1] It was formed following the disbanding of the Victoria Turf Club and the Victoria Jockey Club. [2] A legacy passed from the Victoria Turf Club was the annual "race that stops a nation", the Melbourne Cup, which was first contested in 1861.
The Black Caviar Lightning, registered as the Lightning Stakes, is a Victoria Racing Club Group 1 thoroughbred horse race at Weight for Age, run over a distance of 1000 metres at Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia in February. [1] Prize money is A$1,000,000.
The Ottawa Stakes, is a Victoria Racing Club Group 3 Australian Thoroughbred horse race for two-year-old fillies, run at set weights, over a distance of 1,000 metres at Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia in February. The event was originally held during the VRC Spring Carnival.