It is business — just not quite as usual — for Ascot Park in Invercargill this weekend.
The Tuapeka Harness Racing Club meeting there tomorrow will go ahead as planned, despite dozens of stalls being destroyed in this week’s high winds in Southland and around the rest of the country.
The carnage started on Monday as gale-force winds whipped through the raceway and then there was a second wave of damage on Thursday.
"We’ve lost 60 or 70 stalls in total," Southern Harness general manager Jason Broad said.
"We now have about 50 stalls left and we have 80 horses in on Sunday so we are just going to have to manage the situation."
"We’ll just have to be smart about getting horses in and out during the day and we are confident the trainers will help us out too."
"We’ve had a bit of working bee this morning [Friday] and we’ve got a pass mark."
The 10-race programme will start at 12.32pm. — HRNZ
