The Kumara Racing Club has abandoned its famous Gold Nuggets meeting, citing dangerous conditions on the rain-soaked track.
It caps off a disastrous new year racing circuit on the West Coast after an unusually cold and wet start to summer.
The Greymouth Jockey Club marked its 150th anniversary meeting on Saturday in the rain, with a smaller crowd than usual and plummeting turnover, while the Westland Racing Club struggled on in the mud and atrocious conditions at Hokitika on Wednesday.
The Kumara committee members and stipendiary steward Mark Davison inspected the track yesterday morning after heavy overnight rain.
President John Ryall said that with more rain forecast over the next few days, and for the health and safety of both riders and horses, the club had no option but to abandon its 2017 meeting.