PHOTO: SIMON O’CONNOR/STUFF – Stratford’s popular New Year’s Eve race meeting will no longer be held at that racetrack, if a new report is adopted.

They’ve been part of the Kiwi way of life, but famous holiday racecourses have been earmarked for closure in a radical report on the racing industry.

Thousands of holidaymakers flock to race meetings at venues such as Thames, Stratford, Greymouth, Hokitika, and Omakau in Central Otago during the summer break, but they are among the 20 that will close if the Messara Report is adopted by the racing industry and Government.

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