The Golden Slipper is likely to be run on a rain-affected surface
The Golden Slipper is likely to be run on a rain-affected surface at Rosehill on Saturday, Latest reports say the track managed to avoid most on Wednesday morning’s rain in Sydney but that changed overnight with a substantial downpour sending the track rating into the slow range ahead of the Slipper meeting.
A day ago Rosehill recorded seven mils of rain but a further 16 mm fell at the western Sydney track on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, forcing track staff to downgrade the rating to a slow (7).
"The overnight rain takes us to 22mm in the past couple of days,” Australian Turf Club racecourses manager Lindsay Murphy said. "There’s not a lot on the radar but it just keeps drifting across from the coast. We’ve been fortunate because they’ve had 80 odd mils at Randwick. At this time of the year it the weather over the next couple of days is good it might get to a (slow) six or a (dead) five and hover somewhere there but it won’t get much better.”
The Bureau of Meteorology predicts isolated showers for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The rail at Rosehill will be in the four-metre position on Saturday.