The Magic Thousands and thousands race assembly on the Gold Coast has been referred to as off in beautiful circumstances on Saturday.
Heavy rain downpours on Friday night time and Saturday morning wreaked havoc on the observe and compelled the stewards to intervene after the second race.
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Jockeys raised issues a few piece of observe on the straight between the five hundred metre and 300 metres from the put up mark.
The heavy downfall was additionally affecting visibility for the jockeys. The races had been formally deserted at 2:30pm (AEDT).
It means all of the characteristic races on the loaded card will probably be now run at a later date, with stewards not having a brand new date locked in.
Whereas the Magic Thousands and thousands is the drawcard, $10 million in complete prizemoney was nonetheless on the desk throughout the remaining eight races.
A horse ridden by James Macdonald within the second race slipped and fell within the situations. It was following the race that stewards held a secret poll with the using group.
The result of the poll noticed together with the stewards choice noticed the race meet postponed.
“We tried to push by way of, however security of horse and jockey is paramount so we’ll cancel the remainder of at the moment’s races,” chief steward Josh Adams stated on Channel 7.
