Track's in good nick...Moonee Valley has a dead 5 rating for Friday night's Manikato Stakes meeting. Track boss Marty Synan says a penetrometer reading of 4.85 was taken at 6:30am .He says: 'We had four horses go around on it and they hardly marked the track...I thought they might have got into it a little bit but you wouldn't even know they galloped on it.' Latest betting on the Grp 1 Manikato Stakes sees Nicconi at 3/1, Mic Mac 7/2, Lucky Secret 15/4 and Apache Cat 6/1. The Grp 2 Stutt Stakes

Track's in good nick...Moonee Valley has a dead 5 rating for Friday night's Manikato Stakes meeting. Track boss Marty Synan says a penetrometer reading of 4.85 was taken at 6:30am .He says: 'We had four horses go around on it and they hardly marked the track...I thought they might have got into it a little bit but you wouldn't even know they galloped on it.' Latest betting on the Grp 1 Manikato Stakes sees Nicconi at 3/1, Mic Mac 7/2, Lucky Secret 15/4 and Apache Cat 6/1. The Grp 2 Stutt Stakes market has Carrara a hot fav at 4/5 ($1.80) ahead of Extra Zero and Star Scream, both at 15/2.