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Thoroughbred · Saltbush Flat

Dry Lightning

Second over the 1000 metres at Saltbush Flat off 185 numbers, and top of the table in the Mallee maiden.

  • 31-7-5-4Record
  • 22.6%Strike
  • 112Mean weighting
  • 7Cards

The runner

as at 25 October 2026 · engine GP-Draw 4.2

Dry Lightning colours Generated livery card for Dry Lightning — teal with a yellow sash and a yellow cap, over a 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
Mare m
Coat
Bay
Home venue
Saltbush Flat
Rating
112
Best distance
1200m
First run
8 February 2025

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
31
Wins
7
Seconds
5
Thirds
4
Record
31-7-5-4
Strike
22.6%
Form
804926
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

7 published · 3 drawn · 4 to run

Every card Dry Lightning 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 9 3.55 236 To run —
Tin Creek Tin Creek Classic Feature 1600m 1 5.70 147 To run —
Coorong Park Coorong Nightcap Feature 1400m 2 33.53 25 To run —
Saltbush Flat Saltbush Dash Feature 1200m 12 5.89 135 To run —
Mallee Park Class B Flat Class B 1600m 4 21.46 38 6 9.8L
Saltbush Flat Class C Sprint Class C 1000m 11 4.28 185 2 1.8L
Tin Creek Class A Synthetic Class A 2000m 6 41.84 20 9 17L

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

Dry Lightning ran second in the Class C Sprint down the 1000 metre straight off 185 numbers at $4.28, beaten 1.8 lengths. It shared that block and that price exactly with Old Telegraph, which finished third: identical blocks produce identical prices, because a price is the block in another notation.

Its other two resulted starts came off almost nothing. Twenty numbers at $41.84 in the Class A Synthetic, ninth of ten, 17 lengths; 38 numbers at $21.46 in the Class B Flat, sixth of ten. The Maiden Flat then gives it 236 numbers from barrier nine at $3.55, the top of a field of ten.

That maiden is the flattest set of weights at the head of any card on the programme: 236, 212 and 188 numbers for the first three, inside 4.8 points of each other, in a field whose ten runners carry 61 career wins between them. Trained by Trudy Aspinall. See maiden for what the word can and cannot mean here.

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