De Vries’ latest push comes on the eve of the club (ITC) bailing the racing industry out of another wet weather disaster by hosting today’s hastily-arranged Australian Turf Club meeting scheduled for Hawkesbury.

It will be the 10th time in nine weeks racing has been staged at Kembla Grange.

The ITC was forced to abandon Saturday’s meeting after wet weather last week, which dumped more than 73mm of rain on the track in 48 hours.

Saturday’s metropolitan meeting at Warwick Farm was also rained out - the first time in five years a Saturday program was cancelled in Sydney.

De Vries said while funding for a synthetic track at Kembla Grange would hinge entirely on Racing NSW’s fortunes in the race fields legislation case, he would continue to push Kembla Grange as a possible venue in the debate.

‘‘We’ve actually had engineering reports and costings done to see how much it would cost and it would be a considerable amount of money if you do it properly,’’ he said.

‘‘Now we have sufficient room between our A grass and our course proper and it would be a little over 2000m in circumference and still have a straight of some 400m.

‘‘Kembla has the ability and is extremely keen to have some sort of track in there which would stop the industry losing meetings.

De Vries argued Kembla would provide the same benefits to NSW racing as Geelong has to the Victorian industry.

But he conceded he would be happy to scrap the idea of an all-weather track if an alternative grass surface could be found with the same advantages.

‘‘There are many comparisons between Geelong and Kembla on the basis of geographical location, ease of access and the ability to put a synthetic surface in that can largely service the highlands tracks but also to a large extent Hawkesbury and the metropolitan tracks,’’ De Vries said.

‘‘During a period of time over the last 18 months it has come in extremely helpful to the Victorian industry as they lost an awful lot of meetings.’’