Canterbury racetrack withstood a barrage of rain of Wednesday with six of the seven scheduled races conducted before the final event was abandoned.Stewards were forced to cancel the last race over 1900m as the section of the track after the winning post from the 1500m to the 1300m was deemed unsafe for racing.Chairman of stewards Ray Murrihy said it was a testament to the track and the sensible riding of jockeys in the conditions that six races were still conducted."That section is very worn bec
Canterbury racetrack withstood a barrage of rain of Wednesday with six of the seven scheduled races conducted before the final event was abandoned.
Stewards were forced to cancel the last race over 1900m as the section of the track after the winning post from the 1500m to the 1300m was deemed unsafe for racing.
Chairman of stewards Ray Murrihy said it was a testament to the track and the sensible riding of jockeys in the conditions that six races were still conducted.
"That section is very worn because every horse does their preliminaries and pulls up there, and it is unsafe for horses to go over it in a race," Murrihy said on the cancellation of race seven.
"The track itself has performed excellently though in conditions that couldn't have been much worse."
Track manager Lindsay Murphy said 37mm of rain had fallen at the track on Wednesday with 26mm coming after 9am (AEST).
That was after 60mm of rain last week and another 9mm over the weekend.
Warwick Farm trainer Joe Pride and Corey Brown continued on from last Saturday's Rosehill meeting with the pair combining for a winning double with talented three-year-olds Ladys Angel and So So Sure.
Brown rode De Jetcat and Bacchanal Woman to victory for Pride on Saturday.
Pride said he would be surprised if Ladys Angel didn't develop into a stakes performer after maintaining an unbeaten start to her career in the Winning Post Restaurant Handicap (1250m).
The 2-1/4-length win was the three-year-old's second victory and Pride will now decide whether to press on or send the filly for a spell to give her more time to mature.
"I'd be very surprised if she isn't a stakes mare because horses don't do what she's done in her first two starts if they're not," Pride said.
"I'm not taking it for granted, everything needs to keep going right between now and then but she's got all the potential to be a stakes horse."
Ladys Angel won a three-year-old fillies maiden over 1100m at Canterbury on debut on May 11 before stepping up against older mares on the heavy (10) track on Wednesday and leading all the way.
So So Sure rounded out a good day for Pride when he scored his second win in as many starts this preparation with a 2-1/4-length win in the Grand Pavilion Handicap (1100m).