"No, not at all. The stewards always refer that to the veterinary panel, but the stewards went and inspected the track and they said they don't believe it had anything whatsoever to do with the track," Reeve said.

But Dunn said she would not return to Seymour ever again.

"I don't want anybody else to go through what we went through," she said.

"It's OK to know that now [that the surface has issues], but it should have been transferred or stopped. You put jockeys' lives at risk, you put horses' lives at risk.

"I'll never go there again."

Dunn said she would wait for the autopsy to reveal Broccolo's cause of death, but she believes the track was a contributing factor.

"I think so, yes," she said.

"He was a sound animal. I can't tell you what it [the track] was like, all I know is I've got a horse that won seven races that we cared about very much who's not with us now.

"There was a lot of kickback and I know there are a lot of trainers at Seymour that don't like the track itself.

"If the track had been in good condition, it wouldn't have been a problem. If I knew it was in the condition it was, I wouldn't have gone. There's no way I would have gone."

Reeve said she had not heard from Racing Victoria about upcoming meetings being transferred but she expected a meeting in August and one in September would be taken from the club.

"The track isn't performing up to a standard that it should be so that's something we'll have to live with until it improves," she said.

"I anticipate they will try and run a meeting prior to our cup meeting so we can work out what the track is doing, but by spring, once we get a bit more warm weather and growth, it will improve I'm sure.

Reeve said the only remedy for the track was time.

"The track is very new," she said.

"The track was sprigged with kikuyu in November so it's still a very new surface, and of course kikuyu goes dormant in the winter. Although we over-sowed with rye, that hasn't had a chance to establish either.

"It's meant that the surface kicks out and the profile is fairly coarse, so that's led to the jockeys not being particularly happy with the kickback.

"If we got to the same period next year and things hadn't improved, it would be not good at all, but I'm sure over the spring and summer when the kikuyu comes into its own, I anticipate the kikuyu will really get motoring and hopefully once it's really got itself established it will hold together much better over the winter months."

A Racing Victoria spokesperson said the track was "continuing to mature".

"The club will continue to maintain the track and we expect it to continue to improve over the next year, particularly with another summer of kikuyu development and consolidation under its belt.

"Unfortunately some areas of the track didn't perform as expected last week as a result of its immaturity and some ongoing challenges the club is facing around birds.

"The stewards determined that the track was safe for racing which is why the meeting was conducted and completed.

"As we do following each Seymour meeting we liaise with the club, discuss the track's performance and its future racing schedule to ensure that it remains in the best long-term interests of the track. This process remains ongoing noting that the club's next meeting is not until 15 August.

"As you will be aware, Seymour is racing once a month only throughout winter whilst consolidating."