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Harness · Kurrajong Paceway

Black Stump

Fourth in both resulted starts, from barrier one both times, off blocks of 104 and 117 numbers.

  • 57-13-5-4Record
  • 22.8%Strike
  • 108Mean weighting
  • 5Cards

The runner

as at 25 October 2026 · engine GP-Draw 4.2

Black Stump colours Generated livery card for Black Stump, saddlecloth 3 — black with a red sash, a chequered black and white cap and a gold sulky, 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
Harness
Age
7
Sex
Gelding g
Coat
Dark bay
Trainer
Nam Tran
Rating
108
Best distance
1609m
First run
16 August 2023
Demo sprite
runner_2

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
57
Wins
13
Seconds
5
Thirds
4
Record
57-13-5-4
Strike
22.8%
Form
845144
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

5 published · 2 drawn · 3 to run

Every card Black Stump 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
Gidgee Paceway Gidgee Pace Feature 1660m 3 9.00 94 To run —
Kurrajong Paceway Kurrajong Mile Feature 1609m 2 4.38 199 To run —
Kurrajong Paceway Class B Mobile Pace Class B 1609m 2 31.98 27 To run —
Kurrajong Paceway Class C Mobile Pace Class C 1609m 1 7.24 117 4 3.2L
Gidgee Paceway Standing Start Trot Class B 2240m 1 8.40 104 4 6.5L

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

Black Stump has the tidiest resulted record of the eight and the least to show for it. It drew barrier one in the Standing Start Trot with 104 numbers at $8.40 and finished fourth, 6.5 lengths back; it drew barrier one again in the Class C Mobile Pace with 117 numbers at $7.24 and finished fourth, 3.2 lengths back. Two cards, two fourths, two blocks inside 13 numbers of each other.

Tonight it is barrier two in the Kurrajong Mile with 199 numbers at $4.38, the second thickest block in the demo field. Twenty-four minutes later, at the same venue over the same 1609 metres, the Class B Mobile Pace gives it 27 numbers at $31.98 — a block 7.4 times thinner on the same night.

It is trained by Nam Tran and driven by Ange Vuletich, who has had four of its five published drives. The black jacket on a dark bay coat is the hardest of the eight to find on the screen in the twilight cycle; the red sash is the whole of what identifies it, as Colours and Silks sets out.

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