After reading the Stewards Report from Bathurst on Sunday you may be entitled to ask the question; was the track ready to race on? Was someone in a rush to get the track open? Seems some drivers were not happy with the state of the track after race three. It's easy enough to have horses damage legs without racing on soft shifting tracks. Stewards handed out six parking tickets and 10 horses had tired in their steward's comment. If the track was soft it's no wonder horses were dropping out in the races, maybe the stewards could have used a bit of discretion. It remains to be seen how keen outside trainers are to race at the track until it has had time to settle in.
Even with a sprint lane two horses in the first race failed to get clear runs down the straight. Can't say that I'm a fan of sprint lanes but I think its only a matter of time until most tracks in N.S.W. have one.
Bad luck for connections of the horse that died in the last race but no one could blame the track for that, that's racing.
http://www.harness.org.au/stewards-r...&fromstate=nsw