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Thoroughbred · Mallee Park

Switchyard

Three resulted starts off blocks of 80, 45 and 43 numbers, and 261 numbers for the Meridian.

  • 34-5-3-3Record
  • 14.7%Strike
  • 88Mean weighting
  • 10Cards

The runner

as at 25 October 2026 · engine GP-Draw 4.2

Switchyard colours Generated livery card for Switchyard — black and cyan stripes with a cyan cap, over a bay 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
5
Sex
Gelding g
Coat
Bay
Home venue
Mallee Park
Rating
88
Best distance
2000m
First run
21 December 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
3
Thirds
3
Record
34-5-3-3
Strike
14.7%
Form
748758
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

10 published · 3 drawn · 7 to run

Every card Switchyard 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 9 9.49 83 To run —
Mallee Park The Meridian Feature 2000m 10 3.08 261 To run —
Wattle Hill Wattle Hill Cup Feature 1800m 2 16.41 50 To run —
Tin Creek Tin Creek Classic Feature 1600m 4 12.14 69 To run —
Coorong Park Coorong Nightcap Feature 1400m 9 26.19 32 To run —
Mallee Park Handicap Flat Class A 1400m 3 6.39 129 To run —
Saltbush Flat Saltbush Dash Feature 1200m 5 8.94 89 To run —
Mallee Park Class B Flat Class B 1600m 10 18.97 43 8 20L
Tin Creek Class A Synthetic Class A 2000m 7 18.60 45 5 7.5L
Wattle Hill Trial Trial 1400m 4 10.70 80 7 17L

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

Switchyard has been weighted lightly in everything that has run and heavily in the one that has not. Seventh of eight in the Trial off 80 numbers at $10.70; fifth of ten in the Class A Synthetic off 45 at $18.60; eighth of ten in the Class B Flat off 43 at $18.97, 20 lengths back.

In The Meridian it holds 261 numbers from barrier ten at $3.08, the top of a field of twelve. The overround on that card is 124.4, so the price implies 32.5 per cent against a true 26.1 — a margin of 6.4 points, the largest it has carried on any card and level with Sunday Pages at Tin Creek. Only Ridgeback at 7.6 in the Jacaranda Cup and Bitumen at 7.1 at Mallee Park carry wider.

Trained by Bronwyn Esch, ridden by Jonty Mapp and Eli Vandermeer on two cards each. Black and cyan stripes: the cyan is the site's own interactive colour and reads at any size on either theme, which is why it is on a runner carded three times at the twilight and night venues.

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