Records tumble at windy Canterbury

Tom Walter - Wednesday July 26

July is not normally the time of year for stopwatches to be brought out but blustery conditions amid an unseasonably dry winter resulted in new class records for five of the seven races at Canterbury on Wednesday.

Photo: ATC

Canterbury presented a good (4) racing surface at the midweek meeting as dry and sunny weather continues to prevail in Sydney this winter.

Class records were broken in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh race while the time for the opening event was just 0.01 seconds outside its class record. The highlight came in the final contest, the Schweppes Handicap (1250m), as Craig Ritchie's Mana ($4 fav) smashed the original class record by more than two seconds.

The Richard Litt-trained Eccellere, the $31 outsider in the Bowermans Office Furniture Handicap (1100m), stopped the clock only one second outside of Deep Field's 2014 track record while Jason Coyle's No Interest got within 0.85 seconds of Reincarnate's 2016 track record when winning the ATC Member For A Day Handicap (1250m).

Below is a list of the new class record times for Canterbury

R3 (1250m) 1:13.08 – class record broken by 0.35 seconds

R4 (1550m) 1:33.74 – class record broken by 0.84 seconds

R5 (1100m) 1:04.04 – class record broken by 0.20 seconds

R6 (1900m) 1:57.10 – class record broken by 0.83 seconds

R7 (1250m) 1:13.81 – class record broken by 2.23 seconds

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