Officials at the highest level of Victorian racing are sitting back tight-lipped at the moment as fear has swept over the Caulfield meeting for Boxing Day.
Late Christmas Eve and again Christmas Day hundreds of people who attended the funeral of popular apprentice Chris Caserta have been ordered to immediately take Covid tests after two people at the funeral tested positive and have become really sick.
And most of those people who attended are racing folk.
They include many Victorian racing administrators, right up to the highest level, many Victorian senior and apprentice jockeys and some media.
All have been ordered to get tested as all who attended the 20 December funeral have been told they are close contacts.
Caserta, who tragically and sadly drowned on the Gold Coast a few weeks back, was laid to rest following a funeral mass at St Monicaโs Catholic Church in Alexandra Rd at Moonee Ponds, on 20 December.
Only those who were double vaccinated were allowed to attend, but as we know now, Omicron walks straight through vaccination and boosters and it reared its powerful head at the funeral with two attendees getting sick during the week with the virus.
An incredibly intense wait fraught with enormous potential consequences hangs precariously over this Boxing Day race card.
Today, on a day when celebrations and joy should reign supreme in households across the land, a large number of those households now await the test results.
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