7plus Sport<\/a> and will cross to Melton Entertainment Park from Sydney\u2019s $20 million Everest and the $5 million Caulfield Cup.<\/p>\nHRV CEO Matt Isaacs said partnering with the Seven Network on its biggest Saturday of racing was an excellent result for the sport.<\/p>\n
\u201cVictorian harness racing\u2019s biggest nights deserve the biggest audience, and we are thrilled to be able to make that happen this year,\u201d Isaacs said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving adjoining coverage with the Everest and the Caulfield Cup will ensure racing enthusiasts are locked in for the night to celebrate our stars.\u201d<\/p>\n
The big audience will be treated to a spectacular trots meeting, which will be headlined by generational Queenslander Leap To Fame and Victoria\u2019s Eureka superstar Bay Of Biscay colliding in Australian harness racing\u2019s premier middle-distance classic.<\/p>\n
The Victoria Cup card also features four other Group 1s \u2013 the pacing Derby and Oaks, the trotting Oaks, and the Bill Collins Trotters Sprint \u2013 ensuring a memorable night.<\/p>\n
Ren\u00e9e Quirk, Seven Network Commercial Director \u2013 Sport, said they were thrilled to add the Victoria Cup to their sporting stable, making Seven\u2019s biggest day of racing even bigger.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a long and proud history of celebrating racing\u2019s greatest moments at Seven and are thrilled to add harness racing\u2019s iconic Victoria Cup to our huge October 18 program,\u201d Ms Quirk said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAcross a memorable day and night, we can\u2019t wait to broadcast winners of the Everest, Caulfield Cup, and Victoria Cup to adoring racing fans, an unprecedented celebration of our champions of the track.\u201d<\/p>\n
The full broadcast will also be viewable on 7plus Sport<\/a> and TrotsVision, while trots fans can also celebrate the night by taking in Sky Racing\u2019s coverage or tuning in to radio networks SENTrack and RSN927.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leap To Fame and Bay Of Biscay\u2019s iconic Victoria Cup clash will be broadcast nationally, live and free,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-129255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}