Southside Racing set to trial Saturday night racing at Cranbourne
Southside Racing is gearing up to trial four Saturday night meetings at Cranbourne in the upcoming racing calendar.
These meetings will feature up to eight races and are likely to commence before the last metropolitan race on the same day.
The trial is scheduled to kick off in late December and extend into three Saturday nights in January.
“We’re really excited about the opportunity to run Saturday nights,” expressed Southside Racing CEO Neil Bainbridge to Racing.com.
“We’ve been a big supporter of it and have been looking for the opportunity now for a couple of years.”
“Racing Victoria has given us four Saturday nights in a row, so we can get some really good data and try and prove the concept,” he continued.
“Those Saturday nights have been earmarked for the last Saturday night in December and the first three Saturday nights in January.”
“So you’re talking about absolutely prime time in the southeast for community and customer engagement,” Bainbridge emphasised.
“From our point of view, we probably see those meetings starting around 5:30 pm, something like that.
“Ideally, for us, we think the right timing is between the last and second-last at the meeting at one of the three metropolitan tracks.”