Canterbury Park hosts a seven-race Wednesday metropolitan card on 12 August 2026, built around four Benchmark 72 Handicaps – including a five-year-olds & up edition, a colts, geldings & entires edition and a fillies & mares edition – before a Benchmark 64 and two 3-Year-Old Maiden Handicaps, split between colts & geldings and fillies, close out the day. As a midweek fixture it sits a grade below the weekend, giving progressive types and in-form campaigners a good opportunity to strike. Elite Racing will have tips available prior to the meeting. Sign up for free selections or access our full professional analysis below.