The Forbury Park Trotting Club’s meeting, scheduled for tonight (Thursday) was abandoned this afternoon due to surface flooding on the track.

“It’s very much typical of South Dunedin – when it gets this much water that quickly, it can happen,” said Harness Racing New Zealand’s Racing Manager, Darrin Williams.

Forbury Park is also very close to the sea and a king tide was expected right around the scheduled kick-off time for the meeting.

“The corner of the track, by the home bend, is probably only 100 metres from the water,” said Williams.

A rescheduling of the meeting was unlikely, but not completely off the table, he said.

“At this stage there will probably not be a replacement date, but we will look at the calendar and make a decision in due course.”

Williams also noted that the Westport track on the West Coast was completely underwater.