GUNNEDAH Jockey Club’s Riverside Racecourse might have been scorched last month but it will present a "Good" racing surface when Saturday’s six-race SKY TAB 2 meeting jumps.
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While the worst drought in living memory is on-going and has decimating the bush, Riverside is still in good nick - and is feeding a large kangaroo population.
Nominations for Saturday’s six-race meeting are also impressive given the heat and drought. There is also a big eight-race TAB meeting at Scone on Friday.
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“To get 123 nominations for the six races is real good,” said GJC president Kevin Edmonds. We’ve been working hard on the track. It’s not too bad, we’re getting water on it and trying to keep it alive.
"Shane Cullen (Hunter and North West Racing Association chief stipendiary steward) came out yesterday [Tuesday] and inspected it.
"He was pretty happy with it and told us to keep doing what we’re doing. It will have its last watering today [Wednesday].”
Gavin Groth, who is based at Riverside, has three of his stable entered for Saturday, as well as heading to Scone on Friday with Red Liberty - a five-year-old gelding son of Ifraaj.
Red Liberty drew poorly in barrier 12 in Friday’s $22,000 Daracon Group H&NWRA Championship Preview Class 4 Handicap (1300m).