Despite its track not being up to scratch Dargaville Racing Club's popular spring meeting will still run thanks to an offer to hold it at Ruakaka.
"The race will go on. Whangarei [Racing Club] have very kindly offered to pick it up for us to make sure the meet stays in Northland," club president Tim Antonio said.
The Dargaville meeting, scheduled for November 17, was called off because repairs to a section of the track had not come through the wet winter well. That unsafe section was the cause of last year's spring meeting being stopped after only the third race.
While this latest failure is an unwelcome turn of events, it does not cast a shadow on the club's future, he said.