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Trainer · Mallee Park

Coen McTiernan

Nine settled runners without a winner, the longest run on the circuit, from a stable of three whose senior horse has taken 12 engagements.

  • 0Season wins
  • 9Runners
  • 0.0%Strike
  • 5 of 8Standing

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, Jumps, Harness
Base venue
Mallee Park
Standings
5 of 8 on wins
Prizemoney
—

Coen McTiernan sits 5 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
0
Seconds
1
Thirds
1
Placings
2
Strike
0.0%

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

14 cards still to run

Every card still to run that carries this name, in running order. Numbers is the block of 1,000 the weighting table gives that runner; the price is the same figure in the other notation. Fields are fixed at publication, so none of these lines can be scratched.
When Race Venue Runner Barrier Price Numbers
Handicap Flat Class A Mallee Park Old Telegraph 5 3.93 210
Saltbush Dash Feature Saltbush Flat Old Telegraph 6 20.40 39
Kurrajong Mile Feature Kurrajong Paceway Salt Pan 3 19.83 44
Class B Mobile Pace Class B Kurrajong Paceway Salt Pan 6 15.15 57
Tin Creek Classic Feature Tin Creek Old Telegraph 3 21.47 39
Gidgee Pace Feature Gidgee Paceway Salt Pan 1 3.74 226
Coorong Nightcap Feature Coorong Park Tin Whistle 5 12.90 65
Jacaranda Cup Feature Jacaranda Downs Tin Whistle 2 31.52 25
Jacaranda Cup Feature Jacaranda Downs Old Telegraph 8 5.12 154
The Meridian Feature Mallee Park Old Telegraph 7 4.87 165
The Meridian Feature Mallee Park Tin Whistle 9 53.59 15
Wattle Hill Cup Feature Wattle Hill Tin Whistle 8 8.73 94
Maiden Flat Maiden Mallee Park Old Telegraph 2 27.02 31
Bellbird Steeple Feature Bellbird Rise Old Telegraph 3 11.00 78

Recent cards

last 9 drawn

The most recent cards carrying this name, newest first, read off the results. The finishing position is the order the draw brought the runner out in, not a judgement of how it was ridden or driven: there is nothing to ride.
When Race Venue Runner Finish Price Numbers Margin
Class C Mobile Pace Class C Kurrajong Paceway Salt Pan 8 19.26 44 14L
Class B Flat Class B Mallee Park Old Telegraph 7 9.27 88 14L
Class C Sprint Class C Saltbush Flat Old Telegraph 3 4.28 185 2.0L
Class C Sprint Class C Saltbush Flat Tin Whistle 9 49.45 16 17L
Standing Start Trot Class B Gidgee Paceway Salt Pan 6 14.56 60 11L
Class A Synthetic Class A Tin Creek Old Telegraph 8 8.54 98 16L
Trial Trial Wattle Hill Old Telegraph 6 12.59 68 12L
Trial Trial Wattle Hill Tin Whistle 4 4.81 178 4.7L
Handicap Hurdle Class B Bellbird Rise Old Telegraph 2 4.80 177 1.7L

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

  • Old Telegraph second in the Handicap Hurdle at Bellbird Rise, 1.7 lengths off 177 numbers at $4.80.
  • Old Telegraph third in the Class C Sprint at Saltbush Flat, 2.0 lengths off 185 numbers at $4.28.
  • Nine settled runners held 914 numbers for an expected 0.91 wins. The stable has none, the longest run without a winner on the circuit.
  • Salt Pan holds 226 numbers in the Gidgee Pace, 26.7 per cent at $3.74.

On the record

the desk, on what the figures carry

McTiernan is an engine persona. On this circuit the drivers, jockeys and trainers are the names attached to the colours, and the stable is three runners the cards list together: Old Telegraph with 12 engagements, Tin Whistle with six and Salt Pan with five.

Nine runners have settled and none has won, which is the longest run of its kind in the window. Old Telegraph accounts for five of the nine and has finished second, sixth, eighth, third and seventh, off blocks of 177, 68, 98, 185 and 88 numbers in that order. The second is the Handicap Hurdle at Bellbird Rise, 1.7 lengths behind a 141-number winner. The nine runners held 914 numbers between them for an expected 0.91 wins, so the stable is one short of what the table said, which is not a run of outs in any sense the engine recognises.

Fourteen runners remain and they hold 1,242 numbers, an expected 1.24 wins. Salt Pan on 226 in tomorrow's Gidgee Pace at $3.74 is the best of them; Old Telegraph on 210 in today's Handicap Flat at $3.93 is next, and the same horse holds 31 numbers in the Maiden Flat three days later. Tin Whistle's 15 numbers in The Meridian at $53.59 is the stable's thinnest.

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