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Driver · Kurrajong Paceway

Dale Prentice

One win from two settled drives, on the shortest-priced winner the circuit has returned, and 476 numbers across the three drives ahead.

  • 1Season wins
  • 2Drives
  • 50.0%Strike
  • 1 of 4Standing

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
Driver
Code
Harness
Standings
1 of 4 on wins
Prizemoney
—

Dale Prentice sits 1 of 4 drivers 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

Drives
2
Wins
1
Seconds
0
Thirds
0
Placings
0
Strike
50.0%

A win is a card drawn with this name on the first line; a start is a drive 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

3 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
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
Gidgee Pace Feature Gidgee Paceway Salt Pan 1 3.74 226

Recent cards

last 2 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 Red Gum Rebel 1 2.74 309 —
Standing Start Trot Class B Gidgee Paceway Gidgee Gold 7 11.34 77 12L

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

  • Won the Class C Mobile Pace at Kurrajong on Red Gum Rebel, 309 numbers at $2.74 in 1:53.8 — the shortest price any winner has returned on this circuit.
  • Seventh of eight in the Standing Start Trot at Gidgee Paceway on Gidgee Gold, beaten 12 lengths off 77 numbers.
  • Drives Bluebush Boy from barrier one in both of tonight's Kurrajong races, off 144 numbers and then 106.
  • Salt Pan holds 226 numbers for him in the Gidgee Pace, 26.7 per cent at $3.74.

On the record

the desk, on what the figures carry

Prentice is an engine persona: the drivers, jockeys and trainers of a simulated circuit are the names attached to the colours and nothing more. Five drives sit on the published programme, two settled and three to run, and the two that settled produced the widest pair of results the harness code has yet printed.

The win came on Red Gum Rebel in the Class C Mobile Pace, from 309 of the 1,000 numbers — 30.9 per cent, the best-weighted runner in the field — at $2.74 into a book of 118.0, in 1:53.8, by a neck. Two days earlier at Gidgee Paceway he drove Gidgee Gold off 77 numbers and finished seventh of eight, 12 lengths back. The same driver, 309 numbers and then 77: the weighting table belongs to the card.

Ahead of him are 476 numbers across three drives, an expected 0.48 wins. Bluebush Boy takes barrier one in both Kurrajong races tonight, on 144 numbers in the Kurrajong Mile and 106 in the Class B Mobile Pace. Tomorrow at Gidgee he has Salt Pan on 226 numbers in the Gidgee Pace, the second-largest block in that field behind a runner he is not driving.

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