It’s official, race meetings planned for Saturday at Doomben, the Gold Coast, Toowoomba and Townsville to coincide with the Cox Plate have been called off.

Thoroughbred owners, trainers and jockeys are making good on their threat to strike having reached an impasse with the state government over demands for a share of the new Point Of Consumption betting tax.

Shadow Racing Minister John-Paul Langbroek tells Mark it’s time for Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk to step in and take charge for the good of the racing industry.

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