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Jumps · Bellbird Rise

Old Telegraph

Carded twelve times, more than any runner bar Stockyard Gate, with five resulted starts and one placing.

  • 34-5-6-4Record
  • 14.7%Strike
  • 111Mean weighting
  • 12Cards

The runner

as at 25 October 2026 · engine GP-Draw 4.2

Old Telegraph colours Generated livery card for Old Telegraph — purple and yellow quarters with a purple 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
Jumps
Age
8
Sex
Gelding g
Coat
Brown
Home venue
Bellbird Rise
Rating
111
Best distance
1000m
First run
23 November 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
5
Seconds
6
Thirds
4
Record
34-5-6-4
Strike
14.7%
Form
126837
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

12 published · 5 drawn · 7 to run

Every card Old Telegraph 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 2 27.02 31 To run —
Bellbird Rise Bellbird Steeple Feature 4200m 3 11.00 78 To run —
Jacaranda Downs Jacaranda Cup Feature 2400m 8 5.12 154 To run —
Mallee Park The Meridian Feature 2000m 7 4.87 165 To run —
Tin Creek Tin Creek Classic Feature 1600m 3 21.47 39 To run —
Mallee Park Handicap Flat Class A 1400m 5 3.93 210 To run —
Saltbush Flat Saltbush Dash Feature 1200m 6 20.40 39 To run —
Mallee Park Class B Flat Class B 1600m 7 9.27 88 7 14L
Saltbush Flat Class C Sprint Class C 1000m 6 4.28 185 3 2.0L
Tin Creek Class A Synthetic Class A 2000m 9 8.54 98 8 16L
Wattle Hill Trial Trial 1400m 2 12.59 68 6 12L
Bellbird Rise Handicap Hurdle Class B 3200m 1 4.80 177 2 1.7L

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

Old Telegraph ran second in the Handicap Hurdle over 3200 metres off 177 numbers at $4.80, beaten 1.7 lengths by a runner that held 141. The favourite in that race held 342 numbers at $2.48 and finished third, 3.8 lengths away — the heaviest block beaten on any resulted card.

Its five resulted starts came off 177, 68, 98, 185 and 88 numbers, and produced one placing: third of twelve in the Class C Sprint off 185 at $4.28, a block and a price it shared exactly with Dry Lightning, which beat it by two tenths of a length. Its thickest block on the programme is 210 numbers in today's Handicap Flat at $3.93, from barrier five; its thinnest is 31 in the Maiden Flat at $27.02.

It is eight years old with thirty-four career starts, and it first ran in November 2024, seven months before Bellbird Rise joined the programme in June 2025. Trained by Coen McTiernan, ridden most often by Eli Vandermeer. Purple and yellow quarters, set against Tin Whistle's cyan and black so the two quartered jackets never read alike in a Mallee field.

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