{"id":244448,"date":"2022-10-14T21:30:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T21:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=244448"},"modified":"2022-10-15T09:00:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T09:00:27","slug":"racing-boss-response-to-criticism-over-flood-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=244448","title":{"rendered":"Racing boss&#039; response to criticism over flood walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Racing Victoria has defended \ufeffthe decision to flood-protect the Flemington Racecourse, after its flood walls resulted in water being diverted to nearby homes.<\/p>\n<p>After multiple days of heavy rainfall throughout Victoria, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/national\/victoria-floods-update-weather-forecast-rising-rivers-flood-warnings-saturday-october-15\/d6ff7f56-646c-4edf-ad10-13917d2f5070\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"areas with nearby rivers and creeks have been dealing with floodwater\">areas with nearby rivers and creeks have been dealing with floodwater<\/a> all week.<\/p>\n<p>The Flemington Racecourse\ufeff, where the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/horse-racing\/melbourne-cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Melbourne Cup\">Melbourne Cup<\/a> is held, is situated next to the Maribyrnong River. Despite much of the surrounding community being severely impacted by the floodwaters due to its proximity to the river, flood walls built in 2007 have protected the racetrack itself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/horse-racing\/the-everest-2022-former-jockey-libby-hopwood-onlyfans-career-takes-off-after-tv-hosting\/9b49a27e-49f0-4cde-b8ec-2732c1aab0af\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Tragedy that led TV star jockey to OnlyFans\ufeff\"><strong>Tragedy that led TV star jockey to OnlyFans\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/the-mole-manly-tom-jake-trbojevic-stay-despite-des-hasler-sacking\/afbaaf30-034f-453b-9e31-ad0d91aa9617\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>&#x27;Filthy&#x27; Trbojevic bluff &#x27;spooks&#x27; Sea Eagles<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2022-brad-fittler-suggests-manly-sea-eagles-problems-started-before-pride-jersey-saga\/ec75b9ff-1ede-4ae5-9790-40e1809ed204\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\"><strong>&#x27;Fractures all over the place&#x27; before Manly imploded<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Racing Victoria CEO Andrew Jones expressed sympathy to those impacted by the floods this week, but defended the Victoria Racing Club&#x27;s decision to install the flood walls at Flemington.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;\ufeffIt&#x27;s a difficult situation,&quot; he told Nine&#x27;s TODAY.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"dd30860f-d0eb-4d09-9a67-815433dbeabb\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/dd30860f-d0eb-4d09-9a67-815433dbeabb\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"8192\" data-height=\"5464\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;The VRC took steps to \ufeffflood-protect its property 15 years ago, which it&#x27;s entitled to do (and) that&#x27;s obviously had unintended consequences for neighbouring residents.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Obviously there was no intention of the VRC to cause harm. They tried to protect the spring carnival and the Melbourne Cup carnival, which is a massively important part of Victorian life and the Victorian economy, so I think this is an unintended consequence.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Jones added that there were &quot;no big fears for big meetings&quot; during the spring carnival, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/caulfield-cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Caulfield Cup\">Caulfield Cup<\/a> which will run on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/horse-racing\" target=\"\" title=\"Everything you need to know about The Everest\ufeff\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Everything you need to know about The Everest\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;\ufeffRacing Victoria has invested very heavily \ufeffalongside clubs for a number of years to make sure that the drainage at our tracks is as good as possible,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;\ufeffWe&#x27;re in reasonably good shape and certainly washed out race meetings are probably not (at) the top of the list for the people who are experiencing floods, so we&#x27;re really thinking of them and people who are trying to manage horses in different conditions.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/edm?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\"><em><strong>clicking here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Racing Victoria has defended \ufeffthe decision to flood-protect the Flemington Racecourse, after its flood walls resulted in water being diverted to nearby homes. After multiple <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=244448\" title=\"Racing boss&#039; response to criticism over flood walls\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244450,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244448\/revisions\/244450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}