Rain ruins comeback runs

The storm which washed out the last three races at Doomben has thrown the summer carnival preparations of several stables into disarray.

Six summer carnival aspirants – Rudy, Lordag, Volkhere, Harada Bay, Ruling Force, and Heart Of A Warrior – were to have their comeback runs in Saturday’s washed out Open Hcp (1350m).

It was not possible to move the race to Wednesday’s Sunshine Coast meeting because it already had a 12-event program.

The Brisbane Race Club has scheduled three 800m-trials for Thursday which will be open to any horse which accepted for the final three races on Saturday.

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The feature race at Eagle Farm next Saturday is the Listed Keith Noud Quality over 1200m which will now have a capacity field.

Trainer Kelly Schweida said the wash-out would have many stables on the back foot.

“My bloke (Ruling Force) doesn’t like the wet anyway but the summer 1600 metre feature races are only a few weeks away and he needed to run on Saturday,” Schweida said.

Trainer Desleigh Forster faces a similar problem with stakes winner Cyclone Beach who was to run in a benchmark race.

“I don’t know why they couldn’t wait a bit longer before calling off the races but we will now have to look for something else to start off,” she said.