Prior to the backflip, an ATC spokesperson stood by the decision<\/a> and told SkyNews.com.au that appointing Holiday was due to his “popularity with a young demographic”.<\/p>\n“He will bring new fans to the races,” the statement said.<\/p>\n
Fans were quick to suggest Holiday wasn\u2019t the only one behind the decision to cancel the event.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbbie didn\u2019t want Keli Holiday performing at the races!\u201d one said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbbie Chatfield enters the chat!\u201d another added.<\/p>\n
While a third said: \u201cI think Abby was embarrassed actually because they were caught being hypocrites.\u201d<\/p>\n
Following the announcement on Tuesday, fans were quick to highlight Chatfield\u2019s past comments on horse racing.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbbie is massive nup to the cup. No way she knows about this. Old mate gonna tell her he is at a greens meeting,\u201d one person wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cBloke must be in the doghouse or something,\u201d another added.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m quite sure his other half criticised horse racing only a few years back, anything for a buck these days hey,\u201d a third said.<\/p>\n
\u201cShows how hypocritical the anti-racing mob can be really?!\u201d another still said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Holiday has enjoyed major success in recent years, with his Dancing2 hit reaching number two on the Triple J Hottest 100 for 2025.<\/p>\n
The intimate love song was written for Chatfield with the lyrics drawing from their journey to finding each other and their shared life.<\/p>\n
Raised in the nation\u2019s capital, Holiday is one half of electronic music band Peking Duk, alongside Reuben Styles.<\/p>\n
The band has won two ARIA awards, with their single High winning Best Dance Release in 2014 and Stranger claiming Single of the Year in 2017.<\/p>\n
Last year, Peking Duk had 5.2 million listeners across 183 countries on Spotify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keli Holiday has pulled out of his show at Sydney’s Royal Randwick racecourse after being accused of hypocrisy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[10422,75576,64,63,447,134,141648,141649,158683,135145],"class_list":["post-474505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-abbie-chatfield","tag-atc","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-keli-holiday","tag-peking-duk","tag-races","tag-royal-randwick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474505","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=474505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}