Sunday’s meeting at Bendigo has been abandoned due to continuing rain and surface water on track.

Damp conditions in the middle of winter have not helped the Bendigo course proper to dry sufficiently following their last meeting on July 22 which held eight races on a Slow (7) surface.

Bendigo received 28mm of rain in the past week with 8mm of rain overnight.

Rated a Heavy (10) early this morning, the meeting was on the verge of going ahead before the track received another downpour shortly after 7am.

The meeting was cancelled at 7:45am and later postponed as Racing Victoria confirmed the meeting would not be rescheduled.

However trainers who had runners entered at Bendigo, will have until 4pm this afternoon to nominate runners for Sandown on Wednesday and Sale on Thursday.

Picture: Colin Bull