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Thoroughbred · Mallee Park

Paper Lantern

Beaten three quarters of a length at Tin Creek off 213 numbers, and down to twenty-two for today's Mallee handicap.

  • 57-13-9-6Record
  • 22.8%Strike
  • 143Mean weighting
  • 6Cards

The runner

as at 25 October 2026 · engine GP-Draw 4.2

Paper Lantern colours Generated livery card for Paper Lantern — solid orange with a black cap, over a chestnut 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
7
Sex
Mare m
Coat
Chestnut
Home venue
Mallee Park
Trainer
Nam Tran
Rating
143
Best distance
1800m
First run
29 July 2023

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
9
Thirds
6
Record
57-13-9-6
Strike
22.8%
Form
50432
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

6 published · 1 drawn · 5 to run

Every card Paper Lantern 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
Jacaranda Downs Jacaranda Cup Feature 2400m 6 17.91 44 To run —
Mallee Park The Meridian Feature 2000m 5 7.88 102 To run —
Wattle Hill Wattle Hill Cup Feature 1800m 3 3.17 259 To run —
Mallee Park Handicap Flat Class A 1400m 1 37.47 22 To run —
Saltbush Flat Saltbush Dash Feature 1200m 3 3.65 218 To run —
Tin Creek Class A Synthetic Class A 2000m 4 3.93 213 2 0.75L

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

Paper Lantern has one resulted start on the published programme and it was close: second in the Class A Synthetic off 213 numbers at $3.93, beaten three quarters of a length by Stockyard Gate off 152. The thicker block ran second. Over 1,000 draws it would not, and over one it did.

Its six cards swing harder than most. The Wattle Hill Cup gives it 259 numbers from barrier three at $3.17, the thickest block on that card; today's Handicap Flat gives it 22 numbers from barrier one at $37.47. Two cards, two days apart, a block 11.8 times thinner.

The first of five mares among the sixteen gallopers, trained by Nam Tran. Solid orange with a black cap is the plainest livery on the gallops and the easiest to pick out of a field of twelve on the Saltbush Flat straight, where twelve runners come down in line abreast.

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