Randwick complaints on wrong track: ATC

Tuesday 5 August 2014, 3:40pm

The unavailability of the Randwick course proper for track gallops on Tuesday should not have been a shock to racecourse's resident trainers, the Australian Turf Club says.

Randwick trainers, led by Gai Waterhouse, are reportedly upset they weren't allowed to gallop horses being aimed at Saturday's Missile Stakes and Listed Rosebud on the course proper or Kensington circuits.

Instead, Tuesday's trackwork session was completed on the racecourse's dirt and steeple grass tracks.

"There was a notice sent out saying that in mid-August we'll start opening it (the course proper) as we start to get into the more high-profile races," the ATC's general racecourse manager Lindsay Murphy said.

"In the next couple of weeks as we get more and more into the carnival time, the course proper will be available."

Murphy said the recently renovated dirt track had consolidated sooner than expected but some trainers preferred to give the surface more time to settle before using it for fast gallops.

"The dirt track was open this morning but it has been renovated so sometimes trainers are a bit loathe to gallop on it straight away," he said.

"The steeple grass was open when it's not normally so to compensate if they didn't want to gallop on the dirt."

Waterhouse said racehorse owners deserved a better deal.

Rosebud topweight Inkling worked over 1000m on the steeple grass on Tuesday for Peter and Paul Snowden.

The three-year-old ran 1min07secs with his final 400m and 200m splits put behind in 23.5secs and 11.8secs respectively.

Ten horses have been left in the Rosebud with the Chris Waller-trained Law dropping out before weights were released for an important lead-up race to next month's $1 million Golden Rose.

Waterhouse has Sweet Idea entered to resume in the Group Two Missile Stakes while she has entered Nayeli and Echo Prince for the $100,000 Rosebud.

– AAP

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