The future of Randwick’s Kensington track is up in the air, but it won’t be used for racing any time soon.

Another set of trials will be run on the surface next month before a final decision is reached on its future.

The track has not been used for more than a year, because of problems with the root system not connecting with the mesh underlay.

Five trials were held on Tuesday but a section of the track again was chopped up.

The Australian Turf Club, and Racing New South Wales, are in discussions about replacing the Green grass.

Barry Griffiths loves the girls, in particular the four legged ones, the latest edition of his success was Heatherly, a highly promising fill by Lonhro.

She is one of many, but nothing quite compared with Mannerism, high on the list of the best mares we have seen race, however, Northwood Plume and Azzurro would figure prominently on the list.

His biggest win was with Tawrrific in the 1989 Melbourne Cup, he carried the yellow, light blue checks, red cap, the first of the five Cup winners trained by Lee Freedman.

Delicacy, the superlatives continue, a remarkable mare, who defied logic when she lumped 59 kgs to win a thrilling Perth Cup over 2400 metres.

Weight of money saw her start favourite at $2.40, there was a lot against her drawing the inside gate 59 kgs, or in the old scale of weights, 9 stone 4, she wasn’t going to get treated with any favours.

On the home turn with a run in of 300 metres she had the task ahead of her, she was back in the ruck, you would not have backed her with counterfeit money.

While Delicacy holds all the accolades, spare a few for jockey Peter Hall, he copped ten out of ten, an excellent ride, a true professional.

What the future holds now for Delicacy is yet to be decided, it has been a hard summer campaign and thoughts of the Melbourne autumn are coming up too soon.

New Years Day proved a mixed day for Matt Laurie, he went to Flemington with recent Geelong winner, Coup De Beel, she ran below what was expected.

However, all was not lost, Lee Dunstan was stoking up the fires leading in a winning double via Pavdayada, who payed $5.50, and Gaily Mill, who started favourite at $3.80.

Matt has a pretty good set up for training at Moorooduc, an area where Norm Francis prepared Tudor Hill, the very good miler who won the Doncaster Handicap twice in successive years.

It is a good area for horses providing ample fresh air, it was never intended for horses to be caged.