Today's Seymour Meeting Abandoned

Thursday, 17 June 2010 04:42

Today’s Seymour meeting has been abandoned by order of RVL stewards due to inclement weather and the subsequent state of the track.

Upon arrival on-course at 9.30am stewards downgraded the track to a Slow 7 due to showers.

Prior to the running of Race 1 significant thunderstorms struck the racecourse receiving 9mm of rain in a 15 minute period.

Stewards and riders then conducted a track inspection and observed significant amounts of surface water.

Acting on this observation and advice from the Weather Bureau that electrical activity was highly likely to continue in the vicinity of the course for a number of hours stewards abandoned the meeting.