Weather killer...The prospect of bad weather is hitting ticket sales for the Flemington carnival. VRC chief Dale Monteith says: 'It's very galling when you look outside and just see this wonderful spring day that we have at the moment, but we get a long-range forecast that a week out tells us its going to be very wet on Saturday...As you can expect the demand for ticket sales on Derby Day is not quite dried up, but it's very slow compared to where it was last year. There's no doubt the crowd wil

Weather killer...The prospect of bad weather is hitting ticket sales for the Flemington carnival. VRC chief Dale Monteith says: 'It's very galling when you look outside and just see this wonderful spring day that we have at the moment, but we get a long-range forecast that a week out tells us its going to be very wet on Saturday...As you can expect the demand for ticket sales on Derby Day is not quite dried up, but it's very slow compared to where it was last year. There's no doubt the crowd will be affected by the forecast.'

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