The closing Group 1 meeting of the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival takes place at Randwick Racecourse today, Saturday April 18, with All Aged Stakes Day 2015 lighting up the track.

Eight races are on the program and after two weekends of rain-affected tracks for The Championships, the cloud cover is still there at Randwick today with rain coming.

The weather isn’t tipped to turn wet however until post-race card late this afternoon, so the current Randwick track rating of a Soft (6) should hold.

Royal Randwick Track Report – 18/04/2015

• Rail Position: +8m 1600m to Winning Post, +5m Remainder
• Track Rating: Soft (6)
• Track Type: Turf
• Weather: Overcast
• Penetrometer: 5.61
• Rainfall: 0.8mm last 24hrs, 15.8mm last 7 days

The All Aged Stakes Day card features six Group races with non-black type racing to start and finish the meeting, which kicks off at 12:35pm (AEST) and concludes with Race 8 at 5:05pm (AEST).

The hottest markets on all eight Randwick races today can be found online at Ladbrokes.com.au who are the only bookie offering Best Tote or SP + 20% on the two Group 1s meaning you will win 20% more on the All Aged Stakes and Champagne Stakes if you back the winner with them this autumn!

Randwick Race Scratchings – 18/04/2015

Total Scratchings: 7

Race 1 (12:35pm) – $85,000 Egroup Security Sprint (1200m)

#5 Road To Summer (8)

Race 2 (1:10pm) – $150,000 Group 3 Johnnie Walker Frank Packer Plate (2000m)

#3 Farolitos (6), #10 Miss Interiors (4)

The first of the Group races runs as Race 2 at 1:10pm (AEST) with the three-year-olds facing off in the 2015 Frank Packer Plate, two notable scratchings from the race in Farolitos and Miss Interiors causing the price on the Ladbrokes.com.au favourite Hi World to firm in from $3.10 to $2.40.

Race 3 (1:45pm) – $150,000 Group 3 Kari J H B Carr Stakes (1400m)

#10 Nancy (9)

Peter & Paul Snowden’s lightly-raced but progressive filly Nancy comes out of Race 3 – the 2015 JHB Carr Stakes leaving 11 to face off led by the Ron Quinton-trained Peeping ($3.80).

Race 4 (2:25pm) – $400,000 Group 1 Moet & Chandon Champagne Stakes (1600m)

No current scratchings

The first of the Group 1s, the 2015 Champagne Stakes has retained its original nine-horse line-up, the top two-year-old according to the bookies being the Peter Moody-trained filly Pasadena Girl ($2.60) who is on the firm.

Race 5 (3:05pm) – $150,000 Group 3 Japan Racing Association Plate (2000m)

#7 Kourkam (2)

One of the single-figure hopes Kourkam from the Tony McEvoy stables is the only scratching from the 2015 Japan Racing Association Plate, the Team Hawkes-trained Leebaz ($3.60) favourite to win Race 5.

Race 6 (3:45pm) – $400,000 Group 1 Schweppes All Aged Stakes (1400m)

No current scratchings

The day’s major, the 2015 All Aged Stakes features its original 13-starter field that includes 10 individual Group 1 winners including the easing favourite Chautauqua ($3.30) who isn’t vulnerable from the inside alley according to co-trainer John Hawkes.

Race 7 (4:25pm) – $150,000 Group 3 Ticketek Hall Mark Stakes (1200m)

No current scratchings

The 2015 Hall Mark Stakes featuring a host of returning sprinters, many of which are Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival-bound, then rounds out the Group action today with the returning “Rockhampton Rocket” Our Boy Malachi the deserving $2.50 favourite for his first-up run.

Race 8 (5:05pm) – $85,000 TAB Rewards Royal Randwick 100 (1400m)

#9 Snippets Land (9), #13 Goldstone (12)