The big wet in New South Wales and Queensland has caused a reshuffle of the venues originally scheduled to host racing on Wednesday.
The Sydney meeting originally set down for Warwick Farm on Wednesday will now be held at Canterbury on Thursday.
The Canterbury track was rated a Heavy 10 late on Tuesday afternoon with only showers predicted on Wednesday but up to 15mm on Thursday.
As a result of the transfer, some distance changes are necessary with the two 1300m races and 1400m race to now be run over 1250m, the 1000m BM72 increased to 1100m and the 1600m BM72 now a 1550m event.
The transferral of Wednesday’s meeting following the postponement of Tuesday’s polytrack trials, which will now be held on Wednesday, and the abandonment of the last four races at Tuesday’s Grafton meeting due to incessant rain and visibility issues.
The Sunshine Coast’s synthetic track is the new home for Wednesday’s Ipswich meeting after a Tuesday morning track inspection at Ipswich determined the track was too wet for racing and that there was no likelihood of the surface recovering sufficiently for racing to proceed Wednesday.
That transferral will also necessitate the following distance and field-size changes:
The big wet in New South Wales and Queensland has caused a reshuffle of the venues originally scheduled to host racing on Wednesday.
The Sydney meeting originally set down for Warwick Farm on Wednesday will now be held at Canterbury on Thursday.
The Canterbury track was rated a Heavy 10 late on Tuesday afternoon with only showers predicted on Wednesday but up to 15mm on Thursday.
As a result of the transfer, some distance changes are necessary with the two 1300m races and 1400m race to now be run over 1250m, the 1000m BM72 increased to 1100m and the 1600m BM72 now a 1550m event.
The transferral of Wednesday’s meeting following the postponement of Tuesday’s polytrack trials, which will now be held on Wednesday, and the abandonment of the last four races at Tuesday’s Grafton meeting due to incessant rain and visibility issues.
The Sunshine Coast’s synthetic track is the new home for Wednesday’s Ipswich meeting after a Tuesday morning track inspection at Ipswich determined the track was too wet for racing and that there was no likelihood of the surface recovering sufficiently for racing to proceed Wednesday.
That transferral will also necessitate the following distance and field-size changes:
