The club has retained premier status for the White Robe Lodge Handicap meeting on February 1, while the Otago club's meeting at Cromwell in early December will be upgraded.
''We're delighted to keep the premier meeting. That was the one thing we were really pleased about,'' Otago Racing Club chief executive Andre Klein said.
A concerted effort to attract racing enthusiasts to the White Robe Lodge meeting paid off with on-course turnover almost doubling this year.
A switch in status for the two meetings at Cromwell is aimed at matching the bumper crowd at Cromwell's December meeting with bumper fields.
''We had a huge crowd but only a few horses running around,'' Klein said.
''The features will be run for $25,000 which should encourage trainers to bring their horses to the meeting.''
The Wanaka and Queenstown cups will be increased to $25,000, while the Cromwell meeting in March will be reduced in status.
A glut of Monday meetings - five in total - concerns Klein, but the club has adapted with two of the dates. A Monday meeting on December 16 will now be a twilight meeting giving the club the chance to attract more businesses on-course for Christmas functions.
''Monday is not ideal, but [the 3pm start] does give us the opportunity to try and encourage people to come along.''
Another Monday date falls on Otago Anniversary Day, and the Beaumont club will run at Wingatui alongside a Forbury Park Trotting Club meeting at the track.
''Our club has gone particularly well on Sundays, and not having those is a tad frustrating.''
The second of the club's two June dates has been moved to later in the month, with another meeting in late July after the track's drainage system has shown it can handle regular winter racing.
''Since we've put the drainage in, we've found the course has been recovering really quickly after the rain, so it's given us a bit more confidence in programming winter fixtures.
''It opens up a lot more avenues for the club.''
''We'll miss that second June date, but it's not the end of the world.''
Forbury Park Trotting Club general manager Zelda Jordan said the club had lost an early January meeting and an early September meeting, but had gained the harness licence for the dual-code meeting with the Beaumont club in March.
However, numbers had been an issue for both lost dates, as the September meeting was abandoned last year after only 73 horses were nominated for the meeting.
The winter racing programme at Forbury Park continued to work well for the club, Jordan said.
