More horseracing in regions

Non-TAB horseracing will return to some regional centres this weekend, after being suspended so support for TAB races was strengthened in light of the equine influenza outbreak.

Race meetings will be held this Saturday in the green zone in Longreach and Emerald and in the red zone in Gympie for the first time since horse flu was discovered in August.

Chief operations manager Malcolm Tuttle says there will be biosecurity measures in place at the events.

"We think that it's essential that we maintain high levels of biosecurity, particularly at a time in south-east Queensland where we're freeing up the movement of horses and people in the industry - we need to be very careful - the last thing we would want to do would be to find the virus spreads any more quickly," he said.

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