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Old boy Flow Meter will have his 30th race start of 2021 on Boxing Day, as a 12-year-old no less.

Trainer Matthew Smith isn’t fussed about Festival Dancer being the only filly in Saturday’s Group 2 Sandown Guineas at Caulfield as the boys still need to run down the pacy Sydney raider.

Cup Week at Flemington concludes on Saturday.

The pair were spotted in the background of a photo of Brae Sokolski -  who part owns the Melbourne Cup-winning racehorse Verry Elleegant - at the acclaimed Flower Drum eatery on Tuesday.

At the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. Drip Feeding Covid Announcements. 2

Spectators won't be allowed in, but it's hoped Cantabrians will still dress up and hit the champagne breakfasts.

The country records highest daily case numbers in over a year, Auckland nears 90 percent first-dose vaccination rates and Waiheke Island records first case of Covid-19.

Organisers say the Government's vaccination certificate scheme, which will start in November, came too late to save it.

RSN927 IS THE COUCH OUR NEW DAY AT THE RACES? July 4, 2021 4:30 pm By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor In 1999 a mob called Teletrack Corporate Racing attempted to launch a project that at the time was an affront to our glorious sport but in retrospect seems a vision of the future. It was reported at the time that: “Construction on what’s being billed as the world’s first horseracing track dedicated entirely to online punters is expected to start in South Australia within the next two months....

The Melbourne Racing Club has issued the first of potentially numerous challenges to the historic flow of our racing calendar.