Brendon Avdulla wins on Koroibete on the much-maligned Randwick track. Photo: Mark Evans Source: MARK EVANS / News Limited
THE honeymoon is offically over for the $1.6 million Kensington track with Saturday's surface labelled "crap" and "rubbish".
Despite being hailed as one of the best tracks in Australia after racing returned there on October 7, the Kensington deck was about as forgiving as nearby Alison Rd.
Trainer Joe Pride was filthy with the surface, and said he would have left his team of horses at home had he known it would be so hard. His veteran stayer Maluckyday was so sore that his summer campaign has now been aborted.
Fellow trainer David Payne also noted his only runner for the afternoon, Dowdstown Charlie, "jarred up".
Pride asked why Kensington wasn't given more watering, and the fact six class records were run on Saturday backed up his argument.
"I would have kept my horses at home had I known that's what I was going to get yesterday," Pride said.
"It was rubbish to turn that out, just crap.
"I had four horses run yesterday, and three times the jockeys came back and said the track was too hard.
"I don't see how it was good for punters. If you weren't on the fence or on the pace you couldn't win. They were running fields of 14, but it might as well have been six because eight horses couldn't win.
"We all know the track can cope with water, so why not give it a good soak during the week?
"They (the Australian Turf Club officials) ask the jockeys what they think of the surface, but they don't ask the trainers because they might hear what they don't necessarily want to hear. They even ask the winning jockey how it feels, but of course they're going to say the track feels right.
"Maluckyday is stiff and sore. I've spent a lot of time getting him into the right frame of mind to win races, but I've done damage to him mentally and physically he's sore. I feel bad for sending him around."
Pride will inform stewards about how his team were worse for wear after Saturday. He said he would have complained even if he had won the feature Villiers Stakes with hard-luck story Destiny's Kiss, or the Christmas Cup with Maluckyday.
Leading trainer Chris Waller said of the Kensington track: "It does look like a firm surface, but it's a track we have to get used to. I'd compare it to Caulfield and Flemington, which can also dry very quickly and also at time be too firm. Maybe we can work with the club about getting more water on it."
Randwick track boss Nevesh Ramdhani was surprised when told about the trainers' gripes, saying: "I spoke to a few jockeys and they told me it felt great. It would have got five or six mils a day of water, and all up 40mls for the week."
The Villiers Stakes meeting was only switched to the Kensington track because the Randwick course proper was deemed not "optimum".
It was the fourth successive week a race meeting was held on the inner track. A fifth meeting will be run Friday.
The Randwck course proper will definitely be ready for a return on Boxing Day.
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