{"id":2238,"date":"2020-09-20T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theracingsharks.com.au\/?post_type=news&#038;p=2238"},"modified":"2020-09-20T11:32:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T01:32:05","slug":"rv-cancels-country-race-meets-due-to-covid","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/theracingsharks.com.au\/news\/rv-cancels-country-race-meets-due-to-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"RV cancels country race meets due to COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\">Racing Victoria has cancelled all non-TAB race meetings in the state on Melbourne Cup day due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>It will leave just two Victorian race programs on the first Tuesday in November, the feature card at Flemington and one at Echuca.<\/p>\n<p>The meetings are among a number of country racing casualties during the spring with RV also abandoning all picnic meetings for the first two weeks of the picnic racing season, which starts on October 24.<\/p><div class=\"396456b7f3fe45513491166c7bb3cce7\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<center><div class=\"mcwidget-embed\" data-widget-id=\"14472961\"><\/div><\/center>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The decisions were made in consultation with Country Racing Victoria and the race clubs involved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decision to cancel these race meetings has been reached following extensive consultation and has been based on a number of factors, including the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic,&#8221; RV&#8217;s Greg Carpenter said.<\/p>\n<p>The Benalla Cup has also been moved to coincide with the AFL Grand Final public holiday on October 23.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"news_category":[],"news_tag":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theracingsharks.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theracingsharks.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theracingsharks.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theracingsharks.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theracingsharks.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theracingsharks.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"news_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theracingsharks.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tag?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}