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Thoroughbred · Mallee Park

Bitumen

Blocks from 315 numbers down to nine across nine cards, and three career wins from thirty-four starts.

  • 34-3-8-4Record
  • 8.8%Strike
  • 133Mean weighting
  • 9Cards

The runner

as at 25 October 2026 · engine GP-Draw 4.2

Bitumen colours Generated livery card for Bitumen — solid slate grey with a red cap, over a dark bay coat swatch.

A runner on this circuit carries colours rather than a photograph. There is nothing to photograph: the livery is drawn from the same values the simulator renders, so the card above and the screen agree.

Code
Thoroughbred
Age
5
Sex
Gelding g
Coat
Dark bay
Home venue
Mallee Park
Rating
133
Best distance
1800m
First run
14 December 2024

The rating is not a handicapper's mark — this circuit has no handicapper. It is the runner's mean published weighting: the average block of numbers, out of 1,000, that GP-Draw 4.2 has given it across the cards it appears on. Divide by ten for the mean true win percentage.

Career

counted off the resulted cards

Starts
34
Wins
3
Seconds
8
Thirds
4
Record
34-3-8-4
Strike
8.8%
Form
754204
Prizemoney
—

The record reads starts–wins–seconds–thirds and the form string runs oldest to newest, so the last figure is the most recent finishing position. Figures are as at 25 October 2026 on the circuit clock and move only when a card this runner is declared in is drawn. There is no prizemoney on this circuit: nothing is staked, so nothing is won, and the money column is printed as an em dash rather than filled with a number that does not exist.

Every card

9 published · 3 drawn · 6 to run

Every card Bitumen appears on, newest first, read off the cards themselves. Numbers is the block of 1,000 the weighting table gave this runner in that race; price is the same figure in the other notation. A card still to run has no finishing position, because nothing has been drawn yet.
Date Venue Race Distance Barrier Price Numbers Finish Margin
Mallee Park Maiden Flat Maiden 1200m 7 4.45 188 To run —
Wattle Hill Wattle Hill Cup Feature 1800m 1 4.83 170 To run —
Tin Creek Tin Creek Classic Feature 1600m 6 55.83 15 To run —
Coorong Park Coorong Nightcap Feature 1400m 1 4.74 177 To run —
Mallee Park Handicap Flat Class A 1400m 8 8.00 103 To run —
Saltbush Flat Saltbush Dash Feature 1200m 2 18.94 42 To run —
Mallee Park Class B Flat Class B 1600m 5 2.59 315 4 7.2L
Saltbush Flat Class C Sprint Class C 1000m 5 87.90 9 11 26L
Wattle Hill Trial Trial 1400m 5 4.84 177 2 short half-head

Fields are fixed when a card is published, so there are no scratchings and no starting price: the price in this table is the one the card carried. How a virtual race is decided works through the arithmetic.

Prices on this page are the draw weighting in another notation. They are reference figures published with the card, not odds available anywhere, and not a betting recommendation.

The form line

the desk, on what the weightings have done

Bitumen held 315 numbers of the 1,000 in the Class B Flat, from barrier five at $2.59, the thickest block in the field and 38.6 per cent implied. It finished fourth, 7.2 lengths behind a winner that held twenty. The day before, it held nine numbers in the Class C Sprint at $87.90 and finished eleventh of twelve.

Nine numbers to 315 is a range of thirty-five to one, the widest any runner has been given on the published programme. Its one top-three finish came off neither extreme: second in the Trial off 177 numbers at $4.84, beaten a short half-head by Stockyard Gate, which held 67 — the closest margin on any resulted card, and no dead heat is possible because a number is drawn once.

Three career wins from thirty-four starts is the lowest strike rate of the 28 runners, against eight seconds. Trained by Bronwyn Esch. Solid slate with a red cap, which is the plainest thing a livery can be and the most reliable at distance.

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