What have you done in between when you've had that little break between the last meeting?

Following Aurigny Star, we renovated the track.

We had a big set of jump outs on the Monday after Aurigny Star on the course proper, and then we renovated the track, followed tail and core, swept up those cores, over seeded and verti-drained, and left us with a nice fresh cover.

Good young growth coming through, and sets us up well for spring.

Where will they go in the straight races, do you think?

A lot of them are early in the card.

So maybe down the middle.

Um, maybe the younger ones might come down to the inside, guiding the rail, but there's certainly nothing wrong with the outside.

So in the event of extreme weather conditions, what would that typically look like in a race scenario?

Yes, you've plucked out the page, one of the pages that caused me most fear as we near the start time and date.

But yes, we've had extreme weather planned in our rider handbook.

for i think two years now um the reason being um my observation of other events not cycling um one was a a mountainous ultra race in in china i believe and another one was actually a kayaking excursion on a uk river after after heavy rain both of which led to unfortunate consequences made me think okay well What would I have done in that situation being that I organize events myself? So that was kind of the origin of that, but you're absolutely right.

And to answer part of your two questions at the same time is one of the things I think organizers can do in this situation is better communicate.

So the reason I've built this plan in the first place is when I make this and review them, and it's reviewed for every one of our four trials that we operate, bearing in mind they're spread evenly across the year, is I want to be making a sound decision ahead of the time where there isn't any emotion, where I can think clearly and have a robust ladder of escalation to isolate certain events, which I think are outside of the realms of reasonably foreseeable, which I can come back to later.

And the reason I share it is because I don't think it should be a surprise of how I'm going to behave.

and because we're talking about wide range of areas so people are potentially going to be experiencing different weather conditions in in one place to another and what can be especially quite say intense thunderstorm can be quite dangerous to one person there's another person over in the field who's sitting in a nice lovely day so How can we sort of balance, that's one aspect of this, how can we balance that protecting the safety of someone while still preserving, say, the integrity of the event or the race itself?

Uh, how is it out at Flemington this morning?

Morning, Michael.

Quite brisk this morning, quite breezy.

Uh, but fortunately the skies are clear.

We had 2.8 millimeters of rainfall overnight, so, uh, just halfway around my inspection, but it's, it's measuring up around that soft seven, uh, range again.

Um, so, so far so good.

It's been quite a wet week.

And with the rail out 11 then on a heavy track, what, what do you expect the, the pattern to be?