Weather rains on Eagle Farm meeting

Queensland Racing stewards abandoned Monday's Eagle Farm meeting after the first race following advice from senior jockeys who considered the track unsafe.Stewards posted a heavy nine rating at 8am after Eagle Farm copped an overnight deluge but a heavy shower in the 10 minutes prior to the running of the first pushed jockeys into raising the white flag when they returned to scale.The remainder of the meeting was abandoned due to poor visibility and the state of the track.Gold Coast jockey Dan G

Queensland Racing stewards abandoned Monday's Eagle Farm meeting after the first race following advice from senior jockeys who considered the track unsafe.

Stewards posted a heavy nine rating at 8am after Eagle Farm copped an overnight deluge but a heavy shower in the 10 minutes prior to the running of the first pushed jockeys into raising the white flag when they returned to scale.

The remainder of the meeting was abandoned due to poor visibility and the state of the track.

Gold Coast jockey Dan Griffin rode the unplaced Lonesome Tycoon and the experienced hoop echoed colleagues' sentiments.

"I pulled my first set of goggles down after we had gone 80 metres," Griffin said.

"It was an absolute bog but it was also very slippery.

"I pulled my second set of goggles down just before we straightened up. I couldn't see a thing and there weren't many of us who were keen to keep going."

The Kelly Schweida-trained Don't Do It Again ($3.20 fav) showed he was a wet-tracker when he ploughed down the outside fence to score a narrow win in the $45,000 Hidden Dragon Maiden Plate (1400m).

Topweight American Gangster ($11) fought back strongly to be beaten a neck with Cross Town Traffic ($21) eight lengths back in third.

Having his second race start, Don't Do It Again is raced by a syndicate which includes Brisbane racing journalist Bart Sinclair and Brisbane Racing Club Chairman Kevin Dixon.

Brisbane airport, which is less than 10km from Eagle Farm, has recorded 165.2mm of rain this month and Wednesday's Ipswich meeting is in grave doubt with the Bureau Of Meteorology predicting the precipitation to hang around for the remainder of the week.