Officials are confident Saturday's Canterbury meeting will not suffer the same fate as a number of other NSW meetings this week.The Canterbury track has been hit with 73mm of rain in recent days and remained a Heavy (9) late on Friday but safe for racing.Lindsay Murphy, general manager of racecourses for the Australian Turf Club, said stewards would only be called in to inspect the surface early on Saturday if there was a significant downpour on Friday night."Everything is fine at the moment, it
Officials are confident Saturday's Canterbury meeting will not suffer the same fate as a number of other NSW meetings this week.
The Canterbury track has been hit with 73mm of rain in recent days and remained a Heavy (9) late on Friday but safe for racing.
Lindsay Murphy, general manager of racecourses for the Australian Turf Club, said stewards would only be called in to inspect the surface early on Saturday if there was a significant downpour on Friday night.
"Everything is fine at the moment, it's a heavy nine," Murphy said.
"There's not a worry about the meeting going ahead unless we get a heap of rain tonight. As it stands everything is good and I think most of the rain has kept going to the north and missed us."
Friday's Wagga meeting was called off in the morning due to wet weather and state of the track.
Saturday's Scone meeting was also abandoned on Friday due to continuing heavy rain with more than 125mm hitting the course in the NSW Hunter Valley.
Wednesday's ATC fixture at Hawkesbury was abandoned because of the weather while Wyong's Thursday program also had to be postponed.
A meeting set down for Friday at Orange in country NSW was transferred to Monday.
With a heavy track for the Canterbury meeting, there has already been 16 scratchings across the eight races.
In the feature event, the Listed Frank Underwood Cup, one of the early favourites Miss Keepsake was withdrawn on Friday along with the Gai Waterhouse-trained Teardrop Rock.