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Thoroughbred · Mallee Park

Long Paddock

Carded four times, the fewest of the gallopers, with blocks from 122 numbers down to nineteen.

  • 33-5-7-5Record
  • 15.2%Strike
  • 83Mean weighting
  • 4Cards

The runner

as at 25 October 2026 · engine GP-Draw 4.2

Long Paddock colours Generated livery card for Long Paddock — white with a green sash and a green cap, over a brown 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
6
Sex
Gelding g
Coat
Brown
Home venue
Mallee Park
Rating
83
Best distance
1600m
First run
11 January 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
33
Wins
5
Seconds
7
Thirds
5
Record
33-5-7-5
Strike
15.2%
Form
23924
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

4 published · 1 drawn · 3 to run

Every card Long Paddock 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 The Meridian Feature 2000m 4 11.65 69 To run —
Tin Creek Tin Creek Classic Feature 1600m 10 6.86 122 To run —
Mallee Park Handicap Flat Class A 1400m 10 43.39 19 To run —
Saltbush Flat Class C Sprint Class C 1000m 10 6.54 121 4 2.4L

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

Long Paddock appears on four of the 21 cards, fewer than any other galloper. Its one resulted start was fourth of twelve in the Class C Sprint off 121 numbers at $6.54, from barrier ten, 2.4 lengths back in a field that ran to a book of 126.3.

Of the three still to run, the Tin Creek Classic gives it 122 numbers at $6.86 from barrier ten and The Meridian gives it 69 at $11.65 from barrier four. Today's Handicap Flat gives it nineteen at $43.39, from the outside barrier of ten.

Thirty-three career starts for five wins, seven seconds and five thirds. Trained by Trudy Aspinall, ridden by Eli Vandermeer in the Meridian. A white jacket with a green sash is the highest-contrast scheme on the gallops and the only unbroken white body in the sixteen — Ninepin's white is cut with blue chequer — which is deliberate: it is the one to find first in a field of twelve.

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