Racing: Tip - stay close to inside rail

Avondale course manager Brian Kinley has a tip for jockeys and punters for tomorrow's meeting.

Kinley believes, at least for the first half of the programme, you need to be as close to the inside running rail as possible.

"The rail is in the true position and it's new ground that hasn't been used since the harness meeting here in March," said Kinley.

Yesterday the track was close to Wednesday's reading of 5.2 and heavy and Kinley said it is unlikely to firm up a great deal, even allowing for a favourable forecast.

"My suggestion is for horses to be looking for the inside four of five strips of ground, particularly for the opening five or six races.

"We've had people arrive here to walk the course and been surprised at how good it is, even allowing the penetrometer reading.

"We've had a good wind through which, unfortunately, if it keeps going will tend to make the track sticky."

The main race, the $18,000 Foley Memorial, is Race 7 and advantageous strips on the track are likely to be reasonably well wiped out by then.

If the inside running is still favourable it will probably assist the likely favourite All's Well as much as his two arch rivals Millnorm and Tantalic.

All three are lining up simply because last week's $50,000 feature at Tauranga was abandoned because of track conditions.

All's Well has been in stunning form and if Crown Prince does not want to take up the running, All's Well looks the obvious leader from his No 1 barrier draw.

Provided leaders are not inconvenienced - and that would be a major surprise - he will be difficult to pull back.

Millnorm is clear second selection ahead of Tantalic and veteran King Keitel.

Ben Sparta, due to tackle the All's Well, Millnorm, Tantalic deadly trio at 2100m at Tauranga last week, pops up in the 1400m Fruit World on this card.

He is versatile though and, in fact, had not raced beyond 1600m when approaching last week's run.

He is extremely capable as he showed when chasing All's Well home twice at Ellerslie recently and even under his 57kg topweight, will take plenty of beating.

Sir Kinloch, who seems to have been around forever but is still only six, produced a nice third at Ellerslie when resuming and should be a lot fitter for this.

Power Fillee is one to follow from here. Two starts this preparation should have her close to her best, although she might need looser conditions than she strikes here.