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Composed frame from the Gallop Post harness simulator — eight pacers and their drivers strung out down the Kurrajong Paceway straight

The Virtual Racing Desk

Australian virtual racing, with the arithmetic shown

Cards, fields and results from a published simulated circuit — and the weighting table behind every draw, which no commercial virtual product prints.

  • 10Venues
  • 21Cards published
  • 1,000Numbers in a draw
  • GP-Draw 4.2Engine

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Class A

Handicap Flat

Mallee Park · Thoroughbred

Distance
1400m
Field
10
Book
121.2%

Old Telegraph holds 210 of the 1,000 numbers in a ten-runner Class A over 1400 metres at Mallee Park, on a book of 121.2.

Feature

Saltbush Dash

Saltbush Flat · Thoroughbred

Distance
1200m
Field
12
Book
125.8%

Twelve runners down the 1200 metre straight course at Saltbush Flat, with Stockyard Gate on 259 numbers and nine of the field under a hundred.

Feature

Kurrajong Mile

Kurrajong Paceway · Harness

Distance
1609m
Field
8
Book
114.6%

The demo race over the Kurrajong mile, with Night Shift holding 271 of the 1,000 numbers on the tightest book of the day at 114.6.

Class B

Class B Mobile Pace

Kurrajong Paceway · Harness

Distance
1609m
Field
8
Book
115.8%

Harbour Flyer holds 352 of the 1,000 numbers in the Class B Mobile Pace, the largest single block in the published programme.

Feature

Brolga Dash

Brolga Park · Greyhound

Distance
520m
Field
8
Book
115.6%

The flattest field still to run: six numbers separate Quick Sticks and Tin Lid at the top of the Brolga Dash weighting table.

Feature

Tin Creek Classic

Tin Creek · Thoroughbred

Distance
1600m
Field
10
Book
119.5%

Sunday Pages holds 327 of the 1,000 numbers in the Tin Creek Classic, 170 more than the next block on the card.

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From the form desk

Saltbush Dash

Saltbush Flat · Today, 15:24 · book 125.8%

  • Top

    Stockyard Gate

    3.07 · 32.6%

    Holds 259 of the 1,000 numbers, 25.9 per cent of the draw and the largest block in a field of twelve. The three wins in its last five starts came off blocks of 67, 152 and 20, which is the whole of what a form string means here.

  • Value

    Pennyroyal

    8.46 · 11.8%

    Ninety-four numbers for 9.4 per cent, and the best career strike rate in the field at 26.5 per cent. It was last of twelve over this course two days ago off thirteen numbers.

  • Outsider

    Tally Room

    88.39 · 1.1%

    Nine numbers of the 1,000, the thinnest block on the card, against a career strike rate of 23.5 per cent. It is the second-longest price on the thirteen cards still to run.

Form desk columns are editorial opinion about published weightings. They are not financial advice and not a recommendation to wager.

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Opinion

What a virtual product would have to publish

The rules already require an operator to be able to rebuild a virtual race. They do not require anyone to show it. Eight items would close that gap, and this paper publishes seven of them.

Wren Tabakoff · 7 min

Analysis

The first published window

Eight resulted cards, two winning favourites against an expectation of 2.20, and one horse that won three of them at $12.78, $5.51 and $40.78.

Wren Tabakoff · 8 min

Explainer

The Australian frame for a simulated race

One product, one exclusive approval running to 2097, a tax threshold of $255 million, and a 2005 patent that explains how the result is made. None of it is legal advice.

Gus Abernethy · 8 min

Culture

The vocabulary of a simulated paceway

Mobile start, score-up, front line, death seat, mile rate. Half of these words describe something a simulated paceway does, and the other half describe something it only looks like doing.

Mo Farrelly · 7 min

The demo

Watch a weighted draw happen

The simulator at Kurrajong Paceway runs the same eight pacers the circuit cards carry. Pick a runner, watch the field, and compare what came out with the weighting the card published.

Play credits only. No real money, no deposits, no prizes — nothing to win and nothing to lose.

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Composed frame from the Gallop Post harness
         simulator — two pacers and their drivers on the Kurrajong Paceway dirt

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Eight liveries, read off the sprites

The Kurrajong eight were not designed. They were recorded: eight sprites, eight patterns, sixteen hex codes, and three conditions that decide which of them survive a screen.

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Four simulated races on television in 2020

Drones over Aintree, fences built to break apart, horses written to tire, and a field drawn without blinkers because there was no time to draw them. What the broadcast virtuals of 2020 show about drawing a race.

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What a cosmetic cannot change

Across the simulators, the layer the player controls most directly is the layer the engine never reads. That is fine until appearance and advantage are sold through the same till.

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