In defence of Flemington I saw an interview with the curator during the week in which he explained that they were putting the maximum amount of water they could on the track under the water restrictions in place in Melbourne. Apparantly they are restricted to watering to certain hours during the night only and cannot water in the morning at all. Due to this limitation and the capacity of the watering system there was a limit to how many mm of water they could physically get onto the track.

Having said that it still doesn't explain why track was rated as good rather than fast. Maybe they don't realise in Melbourne that there is such a thing as Fast????

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