A dozen race meets have been cancelled in regional Queensland due to wet weather, costing people the industry many thousands in lost winnings.
"Prize money is a bit like a salary for people working in the industry," Mr Parnell said.
"If we weren't able to move as many races as what we did, we would have lost close to a million dollars in prize money," Mr Parnell said.In addition to the prize money, Mr Parnell said about $5 million had been given to subsidise travel and other costs incurred from country races needing to reschedule."[The] majority of [wet weather] costs have been felt on a club level.
"We can't race in May because we're planting. October we're harvesting and we're also in a cotton region, so you've got planting at the start of October, then picking coming into April," he said.The border community celebrates its picnic races once a year in August.Cunnamulla & District Diggers' Race Club had its August races cancelled for the second time in a row due to wet weather.
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