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Jumps · Bellbird Rise

Half Mast

Won the Saltbush sprint off 210 numbers and ran last of ten off twenty the next day.

  • 25-5-3-2Record
  • 20.0%Strike
  • 93Mean weighting
  • 10Cards

The runner

as at 25 October 2026 · engine GP-Draw 4.2

Half Mast colours Generated livery card for Half Mast — black with an amber band and an amber 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
Jumps
Age
7
Sex
Gelding g
Coat
Dark bay
Home venue
Bellbird Rise
Rating
93
Best distance
1000m
First run
26 April 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
25
Wins
5
Seconds
3
Thirds
2
Record
25-5-3-2
Strike
20.0%
Form
435510
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

10 published · 3 drawn · 7 to run

Every card Half Mast 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 6 10.74 78 To run —
Bellbird Rise Bellbird Steeple Feature 4200m 1 4.13 208 To run —
Jacaranda Downs Jacaranda Cup Feature 2400m 4 6.36 124 To run —
Wattle Hill Wattle Hill Cup Feature 1800m 9 34.18 24 To run —
Tin Creek Tin Creek Classic Feature 1600m 8 32.21 26 To run —
Coorong Park Coorong Nightcap Feature 1400m 4 7.42 113 To run —
Mallee Park Handicap Flat Class A 1400m 6 10.57 78 To run —
Mallee Park Class B Flat Class B 1600m 2 40.78 20 10 27L
Saltbush Flat Class C Sprint Class C 1000m 12 3.77 210 1 —
Bellbird Rise Handicap Hurdle Class B 3200m 4 16.03 53 5 8.5L

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. The draw has brought this runner out first once on the published programme. 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

Half Mast won the Class C Sprint down the 1000 metre straight off 210 numbers at $3.77, from barrier twelve, in 57.2 — the thickest block in that field of twelve. The next card it appeared on, the Class B Flat at Mallee Park, gave it twenty numbers at $40.78 and it finished tenth of ten, 27 lengths back. Stockyard Gate held the same twenty numbers in that race and won it.

Over jumps it has one result: fifth of eight in the Handicap Hurdle off 53 numbers at $16.03, 8.5 lengths back. In the Bellbird Steeple it has barrier one and 208 numbers at $4.13, a block and a price it shares exactly with Rail Spike, which has no record on this circuit. Equal blocks, equal prices, which is the whole of what a price is.

Ten cards across seven venues, blocks from 210 down to twenty, and a career strike rate of exactly twenty per cent. Trained by Dorrie Slack-Smith, ridden three times by Eli Vandermeer. It first ran in April 2025, two months before Bellbird Rise opened.

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