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Thoroughbred · Mallee Park

Ridgeback

The youngest horse on the circuit, with all seven of its published cards still to run.

  • 16-3-3-3Record
  • 18.8%Strike
  • 95Mean weighting
  • 7Cards

The runner

as at 25 October 2026 · engine GP-Draw 4.2

Ridgeback colours Generated livery card for Ridgeback — blue and white hoops with a white cap, over a black 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
3
Sex
Colt c
Coat
Black
Home venue
Mallee Park
Rating
95
Best distance
2400m
First run
14 February 2026

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
16
Wins
3
Seconds
3
Thirds
3
Record
16-3-3-3
Strike
18.8%
Form
5980
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 · 0 drawn · 7 to run

Every card Ridgeback 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 8 3.95 212 To run —
Jacaranda Downs Jacaranda Cup Feature 2400m 11 2.80 281 To run —
Mallee Park The Meridian Feature 2000m 6 20.10 40 To run —
Tin Creek Tin Creek Classic Feature 1600m 9 26.17 32 To run —
Coorong Park Coorong Nightcap Feature 1400m 3 39.92 21 To run —
Mallee Park Handicap Flat Class A 1400m 2 28.43 29 To run —
Saltbush Flat Saltbush Dash Feature 1200m 11 15.01 53 To run —

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

Ridgeback is three, the youngest horse of the 28, and it is the only runner whose entire published programme is still ahead of it: seven cards, no result. Its form string runs to four figures rather than the usual five or six, because there have only been four.

The Jacaranda Cup gives it 281 numbers of the 1,000 from barrier eleven at $2.80 — the thickest block on the largest book on the circuit, 127.0. Price-implied 35.7 per cent against 28.1 per cent true is a margin of 7.6 points, the largest any single runner carries on any published card. The day after it holds 212 numbers in the Maiden Flat at $3.95, and at Coorong Park it holds 21 at $39.92.

Sixteen career starts for three wins, three seconds and three thirds. Trained by Hugh Pentland. Blue and white hoops with a white cap, chosen against Tally Room's amber hoops so that the two hooped jackets in the Meridian field read apart at the top of the screen.

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