Brisbane was bathed in sunshine on Thursday morning following 2 days of torrential rain, and the return of the good weather may mean that Sat's Doomben 10,000 meeting will go ahead. But the sunshine will need to stick around to enable the track to dry out enough for racing. 'This track has a remarkable capacity to disperse surface water and has improved dramatically since my inspection yesterday afternoon,' says Queensland Racing chief steward Wade Birch. 'The long-term outlook has improved sinc

Brisbane was bathed in sunshine on Thursday morning following 2 days of torrential rain, and the return of the good weather may mean that Sat's Doomben 10,000 meeting will go ahead. But the sunshine will need to stick around to enable the track to dry out enough for racing. 'This track has a remarkable capacity to disperse surface water and has improved dramatically since my inspection yesterday afternoon,' says Queensland Racing chief steward Wade Birch. 'The long-term outlook has improved since yesterday and it is highly probable that the Doomben facility will only receive minimal showers from now up until Saturday...Brisbane is basking in beautiful sunshine at present and I feel comfortable that we could race on this surface this afternoon.'

Doomben 10,000 runners Apache Cat, Danleigh and Bank Robber have all drawn well in Sat's big Grp 1 clash. Apache Cat remains favorite after drawing #7 while Bank Robber and Danleigh remain well in commission after being allotted gates #1 and #3 respectively. The Bart Cummings-trained Empires Choice drew the widest barrier in the 17-horse field.