A "bold" plan for a second racetrack at Flemington was unveiled by Victoria Racing Club Chair Amanda Elliott, according to Kim Wilson of the HERALD SUN. Building a second track would allow the VRC to host "almost double the amount of race days it does now." Elliott said, "Let’s have a big blue-sky approach to everything, put in another course proper inside the existing one so we could run 40 race meetings instead of 24. Twenty-four is about all a true track can take in our climate. If we had two tracks, we could have more race meetings." A second track could "predominantly be used to try to break into the lucrative night meeting schedule." But for the vision to be realized, stables "would need to be moved off the site." Nine months into her two-year tenure leading the racing club, Elliott said that she "discussed the move with trainers" to potentially relocate to the Greenvale site of Living Legends, where retired champion racehorses live out their days. It is understood the VRC is "looking at racecourses with a second track," such as Sandown and Morphettville. The club is also looking to the U.S. and Japan, "which have both dirt and grass tracks, as it firms the idea" (HERALD SUN, 10/6).
