{"id":11316,"date":"2020-10-28T21:24:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T21:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=11316"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T03:34:46","slug":"melbourne-cup-to-held-without-spectators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/melbourne-cup-to-held-without-spectators","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Cup to held without spectators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The\u00a0Victoria Racing Club was not successful in obtaining permission from authorities to host a group of racehorse owners.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Australia.-\u00a0The country&#8217;s most famous horseracing meeting, the\u00a0Melbourne Cup, will be held from November 3 without an audience. Even the owners of the racehorses will be unable to attend.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Victoria Racing Club (VRC) said the\u00a0Victorian Government\u00a0had rejected\u00a0its proposal to host owners at the famous event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organisation said it was now focusing on providing owners with the <strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/victoria-reopens-electronic-gaming-areas\" target=\"_blank\">best off-course experience<\/a><\/em><\/strong> as possible. It has prepared many off-course\u00a0amenities\u00a0and activities, from a fashion competition to a\u00a0digital racebook and\u00a0trivia games.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said: \u201cOwners are critical to our sport and industry. Their support has played a major part in sustaining racing during the pandemic. We are devastated that they cannot be at Flemington.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Victoria Racing Club was not successful in obtaining permission from authorities to host a group of racehorse owners.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Victoria Racing Club (VRC) has been denied permission by the Victorian Government to host racehorse owners at the upcoming Melbourne Cup, which will proceed without an audience. This regulatory decision necessitates the VRC to pivot towards providing enhanced off-course digital engagement and amenities for owners. The club expressed devastation but affirmed its focus on sustaining the sport through alternative stakeholder experiences.","focusai_entities":"Victoria Racing Club, Victorian Government","focusai_location":"Australia, Melbourne, Flemington","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.8), product_ux (0.7), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR\/NGR Impact Analysis?","query":"What is the projected GGR and NGR impact on the Victoria Racing Club and associated betting operators due to the absence of on-course attendance at the Melbourne Cup?"},{"label":"Digital Engagement ROI?","query":"How will the Victoria Racing Club measure the return on investment and effectiveness of its enhanced off-course digital engagement strategy for racehorse owners?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,155],"tags":[289,4256],"class_list":["post-11316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-sports-betting-news","tag-australia","tag-horse-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11327,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11316\/revisions\/11327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}