Eagle almost landed
Track set for fresh start again
QUEENSLAND racing officials have conducted tours of the newly laid Eagle Farm racetrack and are hopeful a horse can gallop on it before the end of the year.
Eagle Farm was closed in May last year for remedial work after originally being shut for two years for major renovations in 2014.
Brisbane Racing Club and Racing Queensland staff took about a dozen trainers on an inspection of the track last week and BRC members have been invited to see the track in a walk-through on Thursday.
The secretary of the state branch of the Australian Trainers Association, Cameron Partington, said the trainers were generally positive about the track.
Former Flemington track manager Mick Goodie has been helping with the Eagle Farm track and was on hand to answer questions.
“The front straight has been down a lot longer and has about 80mm of grass depth; the section from crossing and around the back straight is much newer,” Partington said.
“This (a racing date) will be dependent on how quickly the newer part of the track catches up to the condition of the front straight.”
TWO of Queensland’s best spring carnival hopes will trial at Cranbourne in Victoria today as they prepare for their next assignments.
Multiple stakes winner Savanna Amouer and threeyear-old Asharani are listed to trial in separate 990m heats.
Asharani is being aimed at the Thousand Guineas and her trainer David Vandyke says he expects the filly to trial well after coming through her last race with no problems. Savanna Amour, who has not run since finishing fourth in the Group 1 Tatt’s Tiara on June 23, will resume in either the Moir Stakes at The Valley on September 28 or Schillaci Stakes at Caulfield on October 13.