On a day that saw just one favourite salute in the nine-race card the track presented was an icky holding wet track and that sort of footing often skews form and results. The winners and where they turned for home in order are led, fourth, seventh, led, fifth, fourth, led, led and led, so there was a massive advantage to leaders or not being too far away in the running. The lone outlier was Direct Capital in R3 that sat seventh and wide the whole way and kept coming, so would have won likely no matter how deep it sat but it was the exception to the norm, so can be dismissed as irrelevant to the days overriding bias. This Listed mile Open Handicap saw a mare Deals In Heels unsurprisingly win but she carried 58.5kg, which is a testing impost for her sex. The 5yo mare had a good run fifth the inner and got off before the home turn to come up an ominous fourth turning in and she took the lead at the 200m. She had one serious threat in the second favourite Demonetization that was carrying 4.5kg less but she repelled him to win by half a length in 1:36.83. The time was the fastest on the day but not by much at all and worryingly the race before this, a Benchmark 72 (or five grades/classes or more inferior) the winner sat wide all the way and scored in 1:37 or was just under a length slower. Deals In Heels was winning her sixth race in eighteen starts and today was her first try at the mile too. She has had lots of blacktype starts and before today had G3 placed once and Listed placed twice, so she was also winning her first Stakes event as well. The mare needs cut in the ground or wetter to be competitive but is two-dimensional in she has tactical speed but is just as effective ridden cold, so she can always counter manmade track bias. Demonetization second up may have lacked the racing to topple the mare but he did get 4.5kg from her so really should have delivered. He passed the left-handed test and after racing wide (it was not a negative all day it should be noted and the track camber allows for it) tuned for home second deepest out and unleashed. The Australian bred 4yo reached second at the 200m so had ample time to pass the winner but could not though the one blessing is he is still light in the weights should they target a bigger handicap race to come. Our King Sway ran on well against the race pattern for third after being last away and still back ninth turning for home. The grey is a wet tracker and confirmed the track was a very off and holding slow presentation with so many big flops on the day as sticky and tacky ground throws a lot of form out the window. Danger Dee well above his paygrade raced eighth the inner and came through closer in to third at the 200m before being fourth at the 25m. Sherrif the favourite was the strange run as very good too late in the race and ridden too cold on settling, so never looked a win hope therefore forget the outing and wait for more trustable footing. The 4yo was tenth turning for home having not improved at all before the home turn staggeringly and was still ninth at the 100m but it was impossible to miss the final 50m. He may need a riding change and if taken to Australia again will get it but first may next be seen out at 2000m, where he can win easily. Woodsman the local had a horror run third wide then attacked a long way out and did well to end up beaten less than three lengths. Ringo the visiting 9yo never ever looked a hope on settling down but was noticed running home okay down the outer late. Gaps then to the rest as they either were outclassed, outpaced or stopped badly in the holding footing. Petite En Jeu the visiting 6yo mare ran fourth favourite and was close in price to the winner that started third elect. She has won three times on slow ground (two at the mile and one at 1400m) but this footing was too gluey today and after racing second the outer and fourth across the top when the attacks started, she dropped out badly. It was a career worst effort to be last and beaten almost seventeen lengths for a mare that has run several shockers but this at 54kg was poor. Today was her sixth run at either G3 or Listed level and she has never looked like getting even a placing with a thirteenth, a tenth, two ninths and an eighth and a seventh. This was not a trustable race result at all with the sticky slow track and bias so the winning mare was good after a luckless run prior but the two 4yo male gallopers are the takeaway for another day scope in Sherrif and Demonetization.