Carlisle’s race meeting on September 10 will not be held due to a one-day strike.
British Racing is staging an unprecedented protest at Treasury plans to raise taxes on horse race betting.
Carlisle is one of four scheduled meetings on September 10 which will not be held. Lingfield and Uttoxeter were scheduled for the afternoon along with a night meeting at Kempton.
It is thought to be the first voluntary shut-down in modern times by the British racing industry.
It has been estimated that the likely loss in income to the sport will be around £700,000.
The Jockey Club owns Carlisle and Kempton and Jim Mullen, chief executive, said in a statement that shareholders had taken the unanimous decision to cancel the fixtures.
He said: “The sport has come together and by cancelling racing fixtures, we hope the Government will take a moment to reflect on the harm this tax will cause to a sport in which our country leads in so many ways.”
The British Horseracing Authority has been lobbying the Government with an Axe the Racing Tax campaign opposed to Treasury plans to replace the existing three-tax structure of online gambling duties with a single Remote Betting and Gaming Duty.
