Rain remains the biggest threat to the gala Magic Millions day proceeding at the Gold Coast on Saturday.Stewards inspected the track for a second time on Thursday morning and were amazed at the rapid recovery it was making.They declared the track unsafe for racing after walking the waterlogged surface on Wednesday but did not assess whether it was raceable during their latest inspection.Steward Norm Torpey along with Racing Queensland's track manager Warren Williams and Gold Coast course manager

Rain remains the biggest threat to the gala Magic Millions day proceeding at the Gold Coast on Saturday.

Stewards inspected the track for a second time on Thursday morning and were amazed at the rapid recovery it was making.

They declared the track unsafe for racing after walking the waterlogged surface on Wednesday but did not assess whether it was raceable during their latest inspection.

Steward Norm Torpey along with Racing Queensland's track manager Warren Williams and Gold Coast course manager Steve Andrews were surprised with the recovery the track had made in the past 24 hours.

"We're just monitoring the track for the time being and we're not saying if it is raceable now for Saturday," Torpey said.

"There's been significant improvement since yesterday and it's quite raceable apart from three sections.

"There's a section from the 300 metres to 400 metres which is of most concern and two smaller sections at the 1000-metre and 1600-metre marks.

"With the improvement we've seen in the past two days I'm sure we will race on Saturday but we don't want any rain.

"If it was a race meeting today I'd say we couldn't race."

Stewards are also monitoring whether horses being floated from Toowoomba and Sydney can find a way through floodwaters to the Gold Coast.

The biggest problem for Sydney trainers Chris Waller, David Payne, Clarry Conners and Matthew Smith is to get the horses who left Sydney on Thursday through the flooded city of Grafton in northern NSW.

Toowoomba transport company, Higgins, was investigating a possible route around swollen rivers and creeks between the Darling Downs city and the Gold Coast.

"It's pretty grim. The Toowoomba range is closed and we can't get down that way to Brisbane," owner Garry Higgins said.

"I've heard a whisper there might be a back road but it will add some time to the trip.

"I'm just hoping by the weekend things might improve and we can get down normally."

Trainer Tony Gollan was scheduled to do a test run on Thursday by driving to the Gold Coast from his Toowoomba base before deciding whether to make the trip on Friday with Temple Of Boom and Spirit Of Boom.