Beer opted to make the drastic decision after several of his gallopers produced lacklustre performances at Echuca on Monday.

The young trainer took 14 of his horses straight to the paddock yesterday and said it was worthless trying to race or gallop horses until conditions improve.

"I won't be running any of my horses for at least the next week and probably longer," Beer said.

"I don't really know how long it's going to be but I couldn't see us having a runner before Corowa next Tuesday at the earliest.

"Realistically, I think it will probably be two weeks before I have another runner.

"But who knows, we are really in the lap of the gods as far as knowing when the smoke is going to clear."

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Beer had nominated five runners for Wagga's meeting on Thursday but wasn't among the final acceptors.

"It was an easy decision for me to make after Echuca on Monday where all of my runners performed well below par," he said.

"I don't profess to being a vet but I'm of the opinion the smoke and subsequent poor air quality have taken a toll.

"While Tuesday was certainly a clearer day than what we have had, I still don't want to subject my horses to the conditions."

Beer who alongside Wagga's Trevor Sutherland are the two biggest trainers in the Riverina with more than 50 horses each in work during peak periods.

He said he had had to adapt his training patterns to cope with the adverse conditions.

"I haven't been able to work my horses as often as I would have liked and their work has been a bit light on," he said.

"There has been mornings where you simply can't work horses and it has been erratic.

"To be honest, it just all got a bit frustrating in the end.

"The welfare of the horses come first and everything else we work around.

"I had a good chat with my assistant trainer after the Echuca races and we both agreed it was in everybody's best interests if we scaled back the work for at least the next week."

The lucrative Country Championships qualifier is just over a month away at Albury on February 22 with Beer set to heavily target the race with multiple runners including Logan River.

Beer said he still had plenty of time to get his runners fit in time for the $150,000 qualifer.

"I'm fortunate in regards to the Championships that I brought them in early and horses like Logan River are not far off a trial," he said.

"We still have got plenty of time and I'm certainly not panicking.

"They called the Albury races off on Monday for a reason.

"It just didn't make sense to me that I should be working horses on the track less than 24 hours later."