THE five races postponed today due to gale force winds will be run at UBET Park Hobart on Tuesday as a five-race program with the published finalised fields from yesterday’s meeting to remain the same with scratchings reinstated.
Race times for the meeting will be announced by Tasracing tomorrow (Monday) morning with all races will be broadcast on Sky2.
The last five races at UBET Park Hobart today were postponed due to gale force winds that made the track unsafe for racing.
Jockeys and Tasmanian Jockeys Association representative Kevin Ring met with stewards after race three where jockeys raised concerns that gale force winds were causing horses to be blown off stride, particularly in the back straight, which in their opinion made the track an unsafe working environment
Gusts of up to 95kmh were recorded during the third event and after stewards’ attempts to glean meteorological information from the Weather Bureau failed, they had no option but to postpone the balance of the meeting.