Picnic meetings abandoned in Vic, NSW

Monday 16 March 2020, 8:30pm

Without the possibility of local communities being able to attend because of restrictions on public gatherings, upcoming picnic race meetings have been cancelled.

While professional racing is continuing in Victoria and NSW with significant measures in place including public lock-outs, Racing Victoria has announced the final five meetings of the picnic race season in the state have been abandoned.

They were scheduled to be held at Alexandra (March 21), Healesville (March 28), Mansfield (April 4), Balnarring (April 11) and Swifts Creek (April 12).

"Today's announcement that the remaining five meetings of the picnic racing season will be abandoned was made in consultation with Country Racing Victoria and the clubs on the basis that the meetings are predominantly events staged for local communities and customer engagement," Racing Victoria chief executive Giles Thompson said.

"Together with CRV we have committed to work with the affected picnic racing clubs and participants on the distribution of the prize money for these five meetings among them in recognition of their lost earnings."

Racing NSW also announced on Monday picnic meetings at Ardlethan (March 21), Tullibigeal (March 28) and Cootamundra (April 4) and the non-TAB Trangie meeting (March 21) had been abandoned.

– AAP

Latest News

Prime Thoroughbreds - We have a Host of Leaders in our Team

Tuesday, 29 June 2021

Prime Thor­ough­bred’s cur­rent rac­ing team is putt­ing to­gether quite a re­cord. We have 22 hors­es that have raced in our team at pre­sent. Six­teen of th­ese are win­n­ers in­clud­ing the Stakes win­n­ing trio Ru­bisa­ki, Fituese and Xtreme­time with Miss Di­vine Em and Miss In Charge run­n­ing 4th in Stakes races. This sees a stakes win­n­er to win­n­er ra­tio of 18.75% with a stake’s per­formed to win­n­er ra­tio of 31.25%. Th­ese are ex­cep­tio­n­al fig­ures.   More »

Freedmans land maiden Group One win

Saturday, 27 February 2021

Un­der-rat­ed fil­ly For­bid­den Love has emerged as an au­tumn car­ni­val smokey with a bril­liant per­for­mance to win the Sur­round Stakes at Rand­wick.  More »

Capriccio completes Damian Lane treble

Saturday, 27 February 2021

In a big day for coun­try-trained hors­es, War­r­nam­bool fil­ly Capric­cio has tak­en out the In­glis Dash for Daniel Bow­man.  More »

More news headlines »