Saturday Track Reports September 12: Five Metro Meetings
This article provides an essential guide to the latest track ratings, official comments from track managers, and up-to-date weather forecasts for Saturday’s five major metropolitan race meetings: Belmont, Doomben, Flemington, Morphettville, and Rosehill. Track conditions are mostly good to soft, with rain expected only at Belmont and Doomben, while others forecast fine weather. Notable improvements and preparations have been completed at Flemington and Rosehill, ensuring optimal racing surfaces. The article recommends staying tuned to last-minute updates as track and weather conditions can change.
- Five metro meetings covered in Saturday’s Track Reports
- Latest ratings and racecourse conditions
- Official updates from Flemington, Morphettville and Rosehill
- Local BOM forecasts for each program
Five metro meetings, one essential guide.
The latest track ratings, conditions, official comments and local racecourse-area weather forecasts for Saturday racing.
Track information correct as of 3.30pm Friday, September 11, 2026.
Belmont Track Report
Current Track Conditions
SOFT 5
+10m entire
Nil last 24hrs / 17mm last 7 days
Nil
Fine
Weather gauged from: Burswood, WA — Belmont Park Racecourse area — Bureau of Meteorology, checked Friday afternoon.
Doomben Track Report
Current Track Conditions
SOFT 5
+4m entire
Nil
10mm last 24hrs / 26mm last 7 days
Overcast
Weather gauged from: Ascot/Doomben, QLD — Doomben Racecourse area — Bureau of Meteorology, checked Friday afternoon.
Flemington Track Report
Current Track Conditions
GOOD 4
True entire circuit
Nil last 24hrs / 10.8mm last 7 days
Nil last 24hrs / 10mm last 7 days
8.9 inside / 9 outside / 8.3
11.5
Fine
Weather gauged from: Flemington, VIC — Flemington Racecourse area — Bureau of Meteorology, checked Friday afternoon.
Official Track Manager Comments
Morphettville Track Report
Current Track Conditions
SOFT 5
+4m entire; sectional 606m
Nil last 24hrs / 4mm last 7 days
Nil
5.98
Fine
Weather gauged from: Morphettville, SA — Morphettville Racecourse area — Bureau of Meteorology, checked Friday afternoon.
Official Track Release
Track rating: Soft 6 (now Soft 5)
Grass coverage: Good
Irrigation: Nil in the last 24 hours and last seven days.
Rainfall: 0mm in the last 24 hours and 4.5mm in the last seven days at the time of the Thursday track walk.
Rail position and why: +4m entire.
Verdict: The track currently walks in the soft range and will continue to dry over the coming days, with the expectation at the time of the walk that it would be around a Soft 5 on Saturday.
The forecast is for fine weather over the next 48 hours. The track has a good cover of grass and is improving with the warmer weather; however, there is marking across the whole track.
— Released by Racing SA — Track Walked at 11am ThursdayRecent Track Pattern
Winning Positions: 3 winners settled forward, 4 midfield and 2 towards the rear.
Pattern: Mixed — winners came from across the settling map.
Rosehill Track Report
Current Track Conditions
GOOD 4
+5m entire
Nil last 24hrs / 0.9mm last 7 days
5mm last 24hrs / 12mm last 7 days
5.23
9.6 / 12
Fine
Weather gauged from: Rosehill, NSW — Rosehill Gardens Racecourse area — Bureau of Meteorology, checked Friday afternoon.
Official Track Manager Comments
Currently this morning after our track walk, the track is rated a Good 4.
The last time we raced here at Rosehill we had the rail in the three-metre position. We're moving it out today to the five-metre position, where there's a lovely pad of grass.
Since our last race meeting we've already verti-drained the track. As we're getting into spring and moving into beautiful conditions, it just allows that root system to get right down into the track and decompacts the surface.
Our weather today is a little bit cooler than it has been, around 19 degrees with a lot of cloud cover but no rainfall. Tomorrow is going to be similar, a little bit higher at 21 degrees, and race day is going to be mostly sunny around 24 degrees with a little bit of wind coming out of the east at around 10 to 14km/h.
— David Morrison, Rosehill Gardens Racecourse Manager, via Australian Turf Club release Thursday at 11.30amRelated
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The track's looking great and has come up well from our renovation following Aurie's Star race day. The team took a full week to renovate the track and it has been in recovery mode for the last month, presenting really well for tomorrow's meeting.
The renovation went really well. We've seeded the track and that seed is really starting to shine through now, presenting a nice, thick, lush cover of grass.
We've pushed the running rail back into the True position, so we've got the full width of running there for the races tomorrow. It presents nice and uniform across, so I expect the track to play well for both circle and straight-course racing.
With the conditions tomorrow, we've got a light northerly wind, so that's a headwind around the home turn and then a tailwind up the home straight. You might see riders look for a little bit of cover if it does kick over 15km/h from the north, but all in all I think there'll be decent tempo throughout the day, they should spread across the track and everyone should get their chance.
Beautiful conditions tomorrow, a top of 21 degrees, just a light northerly wind and sunny all day, so it should be a perfect day's racing.
— Liam O'Keefe, Flemington Track Manager, via Victorian Racing Club release Friday at 1pm