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Trainer · Mallee Park

Dorrie Slack-Smith

The only stable with a runner in all four codes: 26 engagements, level with Bronwyn Esch for the most on the programme, and two winners from nine.

  • 2Season wins
  • 9Runners
  • 22.2%Strike
  • 2 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, Greyhound
Base venue
Mallee Park
Standings
2 of 8 on wins
Prizemoney
—

Dorrie Slack-Smith sits 2 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
2
Seconds
1
Thirds
0
Placings
1
Strike
22.2%

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

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 / box Price Numbers
Handicap Flat Class A Mallee Park Half Mast 6 10.57 78
Handicap Flat Class A Mallee Park Ninepin 7 4.48 184
Kurrajong Mile Feature Kurrajong Paceway Harbour Flyer 6 18.18 48
Class B Mobile Pace Class B Kurrajong Paceway Harbour Flyer 8 2.45 352
Brolga Dash Feature Brolga Park Quick Sticks 4 4.12 210
Tin Creek Classic Feature Tin Creek Ninepin 2 12.69 66
Tin Creek Classic Feature Tin Creek Half Mast 8 32.21 26
Gidgee Pace Feature Gidgee Paceway Harbour Flyer 4 2.50 338
Coorong Nightcap Feature Coorong Park Half Mast 4 7.42 113
Coorong Nightcap Feature Coorong Park Ninepin 8 39.92 21
Jacaranda Cup Feature Jacaranda Downs Half Mast 4 6.36 124
Jacaranda Cup Feature Jacaranda Downs Ninepin 12 28.14 28
The Meridian Feature Mallee Park Ninepin 8 47.29 17
Wattle Hill Cup Feature Wattle Hill Half Mast 9 34.18 24
Maiden Flat Maiden Mallee Park Ninepin 4 44.08 19
Maiden Flat Maiden Mallee Park Half Mast 6 10.74 78
Bellbird Steeple Feature Bellbird Rise Half Mast 1 4.13 208

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 Harbour Flyer 7 10.46 81 9.7L
Class B Flat Class B Mallee Park Half Mast 10 40.78 20 27L
Class B Flat Class B Mallee Park Ninepin 2 5.40 151 2.2L
Class B Sprint Class B Brolga Park Quick Sticks 4 14.32 61 4.6L
Class C Sprint Class C Saltbush Flat Ninepin 5 11.63 68 5.1L
Class C Sprint Class C Saltbush Flat Half Mast 1 3.77 210 —
Standing Start Trot Class B Gidgee Paceway Harbour Flyer 1 5.29 165 —
Class A Synthetic Class A Tin Creek Ninepin 4 3.07 273 4.8L
Handicap Hurdle Class B Bellbird Rise Half Mast 5 16.03 53 8.5L

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

  • Half Mast won the Class C Sprint at Saltbush Flat off 210 numbers at $3.77, in 57.2.
  • Harbour Flyer won the Standing Start Trot at Gidgee Paceway off 165 numbers at $5.29, a mile rate of 1:54.6.
  • Ninepin second in the Class B Flat at Mallee Park, 2.2 lengths off 151 numbers at $5.40.
  • Harbour Flyer holds 352 numbers in tonight's Class B Mobile Pace, 40.8 per cent at $2.45: the largest block and the shortest price on the whole published programme.

On the record

the desk, on what the figures carry

Slack-Smith is an engine persona. The drivers, jockeys and trainers of a simulated circuit are the names attached to the colours, and a stable here is a set of runners the cards keep listing together. This one is the only set that reaches all four codes: Half Mast on the flat and over fences with ten engagements, Ninepin with nine, Harbour Flyer with five in harness and Quick Sticks with two at Brolga Park.

Nine runners have settled for two wins, both inside the week. Half Mast took the Class C Sprint off 210 numbers at $3.77 in 57.2; Harbour Flyer took the Standing Start Trot off 165 at $5.29 for a mile rate of 1:54.6. The nine held 1,082 numbers in total, an expected 1.08 wins, and returned two. The day after Half Mast won at Saltbush Flat it held 20 numbers at Mallee Park and finished tenth of ten, 27 lengths back, in the race a runner on an identical 20-number block won — the same price, the same share of the draw, first and last.

Seventeen runners remain and they hold 1,934 numbers, the largest forward book of any stable, for an expected 1.93 wins. The extreme is Harbour Flyer in tonight's Class B Mobile Pace: 352 numbers, an implied 40.8 per cent and $2.45, the biggest block and the shortest price the programme contains. Twenty-four minutes earlier the same horse holds 48 numbers in the Kurrajong Mile at $18.18.

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