Kilmore Meeting Transferred To Tatura
- Thursday, 17 June 2010 06:43
Racing Victoria have announced that Friday’s meeting scheduled for Kilmore has been transferred to Tatura.
A stewards’ inspection conducted shortly after 3pm today revealed the Kilmore track was rated a Heavy (10) with a penetrometer reading of 6.42.
The provincial racetrack had received 14mm of rain overnight taking its tally to 19mm for the week.
Subsequently, stewards deemed Kilmore unsuitable for racing with sections of the track containing surface water.
Kilmore has staged four meetings since April 12 and the decision to move was made shortly after 4pm this afternoon.
Tatura has only hosted two meetings since March 21 and is currently rated a Slow (7) with only 7.5mm received in the last 24 hours.
However the decision to move to a venue approximately 110km away of arguably inferior standard compared to Kilmore, is sure to anger some participants and lead to several scratchings from the 90 starters accepted for tomorrow's meeting.
