SEPPELT WINES Stake Day What an unusual Melbourne Cup Carnival it has been. The world has been turned upside down with the COVID-19 pandemic and we have all shared in the sadness and disruption. And yet to our great joy, many of the best thoroughbreds in the world have made their way to famous Flemington. Cup Week has delivered on its annual promise of world horse racing at its best. In normal conditions, Stakes Day at Flemington is Family Day. We know that families will be joining us at a distance all around Australia. Everyone will FITPIEWIHXSORS[XLEX+PIQMRKXSRXLMWWTVMRKMWEXMXWEFWSPYXIǻRIWXXLI perfect backdrop to today’s racing. The feature race, the $2 million Group 1 Seppelt Mackinnon Stakes, holds an important place in the Victoria Racing Club’s proud history. Until and including 2015, as the L.K.S. Mackinnon Stakes, it was run on AAMI Victoria Derby Day, as a weight-for-age curtain raiser for the Melbourne Cup. CHAIRMAN’S WELCOME
For the past four years, it has become a great feature race in its own right.
;IEVIEPWSIEKIVP]ERXMGMTEXMRKXLIQEKRMǻGIRX,VSYT)EVPI]TVMRX Classic. This is the spring race that all the sprinting stars want to win. Three other Group races feature today: the Network 10 Chatham Stakes, the 2600m Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the TAB Matriarch Stakes for mares. The end of surely the strangest Melbourne Cup Carnival on record gives us the chance to thank everyone involved in this wonderful sport, for their determination to keep Australian racing alive and exciting, and at the highest standards. We knew from our past that we could do it, and we look forward with hope and anticipation.
Thank you to all VRC Members, to our regular Flemington racegoers and those who, especially this year, have been part of our virtual crowds at the races. It has been a pleasure and privilege for me to be part of this story. From wherever you join us, I hope you enjoy Flemington family day on Seppelt Wines Stakes Day.
Amanda Elliott VRC Chairman
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