{"id":231826,"date":"2025-10-22T06:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/231826\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T06:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:43:07","slug":"melbourne-cup-lead-in-race-geelong-cup-postponed-due-to-strong-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/231826\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Cup lead-in race, Geelong Cup, postponed due to strong winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Geelong Cup has been postponed as strong wind gusts persist, with organisers scrambling to reschedule the key Melbourne Cup lead-in race.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Stewards announced an indefinite delay at Geelong Racecourse around 2pm AEDT, after the third race on the program was run with wind gusts of over 60 kilometres per hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The decision to postpone races four to nine, including the Geelong Cup, was made just after 3pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Talking with the emergency services that are actually based on course, and the weather station in the centre \u2026 they&#8217;re saying the current wind conditions are around 46-50kph with gusts of up to 76kph coming through,&#8221; Racing Victoria steward Corey Waller told Racing.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Waller said the wind could die down after 5pm, but there was no certainty of that happening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iview.abc.net.au\/show\/end-game-with-tony-armstrong\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stream End Game with Tony Armstrong on ABC iview<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Tony Armstrong will tackle Australia&#8217;s overdue reckoning with racism in sport, with the help of some of its biggest sports stars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;There is a chance, and a pretty high chance, that [strong winds] may continue past that, which wouldn&#8217;t give us enough time to run the races in a safe condition.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Earlier, Waller had said wind gusts of 64kph had been recorded during the third race of the day at Geelong, the final race before the postponement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Earlier, strong winds had knocked down parts of the running rail during the day, while the hospitality marquees were evacuated due to safety precautions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Racing Victoria&#8217;s Paul Bloodworth told Racing.com that the remaining races on the card would be held on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The winner of the Geelong Cup, earns a place in November&#8217;s Melbourne Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Media Puzzle (2002), Americain (2010) and Dunaden (2011) are Geelong Cup winners who went on to win the Melbourne Cup in the same year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Geelong Cup has been postponed as strong wind gusts persist, with organisers scrambling to reschedule the key&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5844,64,63,139607,84818,588,85,139608],"class_list":{"0":"post-231826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-abc-sport","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-geelong-cup","12":"tag-melbourne-cup","13":"tag-sport","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-wind-gusts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}