HEAVY rain over the last eight days has forced stewards to transfer Warrnambool's race meeting set down for Tuesday to Casterton.
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More then 63 millimetres fell at the course in eight days with 14 millimetres falling overnight on Sunday and on Monday morning.
Warrnambool Racing Club racecourse manager Daniel Lumsden said stewards deemed a section of ground outside the mounting yard to be unsafe for racing.
"There's a bad wet area outside the mounting yard," Lumsden said.
"We had the running rail out nine metres because of the wear and tear over our May Carnival and it's just taken a toll.
We decided to bite the bullet and transfer the meeting on Monday morning to give trainers and owners plenty of notice that the meeting has gone to Casterton."
Casterton was rated a soft 7 at 10am on Monday morning, having received 9mm of rain overnight for a weekly total of just 16mm.
The rail will be in the true position.
Five jumps races are scheduled for the nine race program.
With the transfer there are some distance changes.
Three hurdle races which were to be run over 3200 metres will now be run over 3480 metres.
Two steeplechase races will be run over 3800 metres instead of 3450 metres and a flat race has changed from a 1700 metre race to 1800 metres.
Field sizes, prizemoney and race times remain unchanged at Casterton with all early scratchings reinstated.
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