Racing Queensland stewards have made an early call to abandon the Doomben meeting on Wednesday.The decision to call off the seven-event program followed a deluge of rain in the past seven days.Doomben was rated a heavy 10 following 160 millimetres of rain since Saturday which came on top of 123 millimetres last week.Stewards, led by chief stipe Wade Birch, inspected Doomben mid-afternoon on Tuesday and declared the track unsafe for racing."The track is waterlogged," Birch said."A couple of spots
Racing Queensland stewards have made an early call to abandon the Doomben meeting on Wednesday.
The decision to call off the seven-event program followed a deluge of rain in the past seven days.
Doomben was rated a heavy 10 following 160 millimetres of rain since Saturday which came on top of 123 millimetres last week.
Stewards, led by chief stipe Wade Birch, inspected Doomben mid-afternoon on Tuesday and declared the track unsafe for racing.
"The track is waterlogged," Birch said.
"A couple of spots near the 1300 metres and 600 metres were of most concern and even given fine weather it would be impossible to race on.
"Not to call it off now would only prolong the inevitable."
Course manager Bill Shuck was not surprised the meeting was cancelled as he's been unable to do any work at Doomben since last Wednesday's meeting.
"It's very wet," Shuck said.
"We haven't been able to do any work there since last Wednesday because of the rain.
"It was 50-50 whether the meeting would go ahead this morning and we've had more rain since then."