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Greyhound · Brolga Park

Spinifex Lad

The best career strike rate of the four greyhounds, and the second thinnest block on tonight's feature.

  • 37-9-8-3Record
  • 24.3%Strike
  • 72Mean weighting
  • 2Cards

The runner

as at 25 October 2026 · engine GP-Draw 4.2

Spinifex Lad colours Generated livery card for Spinifex Lad — solid amber with a black 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
Greyhound
Age
3
Sex
Dog d
Coat
Black
Home venue
Brolga Park
Rating
72
Best distance
520m
First run
2 August 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
37
Wins
9
Seconds
8
Thirds
3
Record
37-9-8-3
Strike
24.3%
Form
10152
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

2 published · 1 drawn · 1 to run

Every card Spinifex Lad 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 Box Price Numbers Finish Margin
Brolga Park Brolga Dash Feature 520m 3 13.95 62 To run —
Brolga Park Class B Sprint Class B 520m 2 10.78 81 2 1.4L

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

Spinifex Lad ran second in the Class B Sprint over 520 metres off 81 numbers of the 1,000 at $10.78, from box two, 1.4 lengths behind Saltbush Sal. The two of them held 146 numbers between them and filled the first two placings; the dog that held 241 ran last.

In tonight's Brolga Dash it has box three and 62 numbers at $13.95, seventh of eight in the weighting. Its career strike rate of 24.3 per cent is the best of the four greyhounds carrying a record on this circuit, which is a fact about draws already settled.

Thirty-seven career starts, nine wins, trained by Hugh Pentland. Greyhound racing identifies a runner by the numbered rug its box draw gives it rather than by silks, so the livery card here is the engine's own colour for the dog and not a jacket anybody wears. Three years old, with 400, 520 and 600 metres on the Brolga Park programme.

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