The name on the colours
as at 25 October 2026 · engine GP-Draw 4.2
An engine persona: the name GP-Draw 4.2 attached to the colours when the card was drawn up. Nothing credited here changes the block of numbers a runner holds in the draw, and there is no portrait because there is nobody to photograph.
- Role
- Trainer
- Code
- Thoroughbred, Harness, Greyhound
- Base venue
- Mallee Park
- Standings
- 3 of 8 on wins
- Prizemoney
- —
Bronwyn Esch sits 3 of 8 trainers on season wins. The full standings carry every name, including the ones still on a nought. A field needs one rider per runner and the paper has profiled a roster, so the cards also carry names with no profile page: the profiled wins add up to less than the number of cards drawn, which is correct rather than a gap.
Season figures
counted off the resulted cards
- Runners
- 9
- Wins
- 1
- Seconds
- 1
- Thirds
- 0
- Placings
- 1
- Strike
- 11.1%
A win is a card drawn with this name on the first line; a start is a runner carded; and the strike rate is wins divided by starts, to one decimal. Figures are as at 25 October 2026 on the circuit clock and move only when the next card is drawn. There is no prizemoney column: nothing is staked on this circuit, so nothing is won.
Declared
17 cards still to run
| When | Race | Venue | Runner | Barrier / box | Price | Numbers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Handicap Flat Class A | Mallee Park | Switchyard | 3 | 6.39 | 129 | |
| Handicap Flat Class A | Mallee Park | Bitumen | 8 | 8.00 | 103 | |
| Saltbush Dash Feature | Saltbush Flat | Bitumen | 2 | 18.94 | 42 | |
| Saltbush Dash Feature | Saltbush Flat | Switchyard | 5 | 8.94 | 89 | |
| Kurrajong Mile Feature | Kurrajong Paceway | Bluebush Boy | 1 | 6.06 | 144 | |
| Class B Mobile Pace Class B | Kurrajong Paceway | Bluebush Boy | 1 | 8.15 | 106 | |
| Brolga Dash Feature | Brolga Park | Saltbush Sal | 2 | 5.48 | 158 | |
| Tin Creek Classic Feature | Tin Creek | Switchyard | 4 | 12.14 | 69 | |
| Tin Creek Classic Feature | Tin Creek | Bitumen | 6 | 55.83 | 15 | |
| Gidgee Pace Feature | Gidgee Paceway | Bluebush Boy | 7 | 22.26 | 38 | |
| Coorong Nightcap Feature | Coorong Park | Bitumen | 1 | 4.74 | 177 | |
| Coorong Nightcap Feature | Coorong Park | Switchyard | 9 | 26.19 | 32 | |
| Jacaranda Cup Feature | Jacaranda Downs | Switchyard | 9 | 9.49 | 83 | |
| The Meridian Feature | Mallee Park | Switchyard | 10 | 3.08 | 261 | |
| Wattle Hill Cup Feature | Wattle Hill | Bitumen | 1 | 4.83 | 170 | |
| Wattle Hill Cup Feature | Wattle Hill | Switchyard | 2 | 16.41 | 50 | |
| Maiden Flat Maiden | Mallee Park | Bitumen | 7 | 4.45 | 188 |
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Recent cards
last 9 drawn
| When | Race | Venue | Runner | Finish | Price | Numbers | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class C Mobile Pace Class C | Kurrajong Paceway | Bluebush Boy | 6 | 16.62 | 51 | 7.9L | |
| Class B Flat Class B | Mallee Park | Bitumen | 4 | 2.59 | 315 | 7.2L | |
| Class B Flat Class B | Mallee Park | Switchyard | 8 | 18.97 | 43 | 20L | |
| Class B Sprint Class B | Brolga Park | Saltbush Sal | 1 | 13.44 | 65 | — | |
| Class C Sprint Class C | Saltbush Flat | Bitumen | 11 | 87.90 | 9 | 26L | |
| Standing Start Trot Class B | Gidgee Paceway | Bluebush Boy | 5 | 21.30 | 41 | 9.8L | |
| Class A Synthetic Class A | Tin Creek | Switchyard | 5 | 18.60 | 45 | 7.5L | |
| Trial Trial | Wattle Hill | Switchyard | 7 | 10.70 | 80 | 17L | |
| Trial Trial | Wattle Hill | Bitumen | 2 | 4.84 | 177 | short half-head |
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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.
Career highlights
no Group races on this circuit — there is no authority to confer one
- Saltbush Sal won the Class B Sprint at Brolga Park off 65 numbers at $13.44, in 29.85.
- Bitumen second in the Trial at Wattle Hill, beaten a short half-head off 177 numbers at $4.84.
- Bitumen held nine numbers at Saltbush Flat at $87.90 and 315 at Mallee Park the next day at $2.59, finishing eleventh of twelve and then fourth of ten.
- Switchyard has ten engagements, the best of them 261 numbers in The Meridian at $3.08.
On the record
the desk, on what the figures carry
Esch is an engine persona: on this circuit the drivers, jockeys and trainers are names attached to colours, and a stable is whichever runners the cards group under one. Hers are Switchyard with ten engagements, Bitumen with nine, Bluebush Boy with five in harness and Saltbush Sal with two at Brolga Park — 26 engagements, the equal largest on the programme.
Nine runners have settled for one win. Saltbush Sal held 65 of the 1,000 numbers in the Class B Sprint, 6.5 per cent, and won in 29.85 at $13.44 from a field in which the 241-number runner ran last. Bitumen is the stable's whole argument in two cards: nine numbers and $87.90 in the Class C Sprint for eleventh of twelve, then 315 numbers and $2.59 in the Class B Flat the next day for fourth of ten, beaten 7.2 lengths by a runner on 20. The nine settled runners held 826 numbers for an expected 0.83 wins.
Seventeen runners are still to run and they hold 1,854 numbers, an expected 1.85 wins. Switchyard's 261 numbers in The Meridian at $3.08 is the best of them, Bitumen's 188 in the Maiden Flat next, and Bitumen's 15 numbers in the Tin Creek Classic at $55.83 the thinnest. Bluebush Boy takes barrier one in both Kurrajong races tonight.