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Trainer · Mallee Park

Hugh Pentland

Four runners across three codes and 23 engagements, for one winner from seven — Red Gum Rebel at $2.74, the shortest price the circuit has returned.

  • 1Season wins
  • 7Runners
  • 14.3%Strike
  • 4 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, Harness, Greyhound
Base venue
Mallee Park
Standings
4 of 8 on wins
Prizemoney
—

Hugh Pentland sits 4 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
7
Wins
1
Seconds
1
Thirds
0
Placings
1
Strike
14.3%

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

16 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 Ridgeback 2 28.43 29
Saltbush Dash Feature Saltbush Flat Tally Room 7 88.39 9
Saltbush Dash Feature Saltbush Flat Ridgeback 11 15.01 53
Kurrajong Mile Feature Kurrajong Paceway Red Gum Rebel 8 11.63 75
Class B Mobile Pace Class B Kurrajong Paceway Red Gum Rebel 7 11.07 78
Brolga Dash Feature Brolga Park Spinifex Lad 3 13.95 62
Tin Creek Classic Feature Tin Creek Tally Room 7 5.33 157
Tin Creek Classic Feature Tin Creek Ridgeback 9 26.17 32
Gidgee Pace Feature Gidgee Paceway Red Gum Rebel 8 12.26 69
Coorong Nightcap Feature Coorong Park Ridgeback 3 39.92 21
Jacaranda Cup Feature Jacaranda Downs Tally Room 3 19.22 41
Jacaranda Cup Feature Jacaranda Downs Ridgeback 11 2.80 281
The Meridian Feature Mallee Park Ridgeback 6 20.10 40
The Meridian Feature Mallee Park Tally Room 12 24.36 33
Wattle Hill Cup Feature Wattle Hill Tally Room 7 8.82 93
Maiden Flat Maiden Mallee Park Ridgeback 8 3.95 212

Recent cards

last 7 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 —
Class B Flat Class B Mallee Park Tally Room 9 29.13 28 24L
Class B Sprint Class B Brolga Park Spinifex Lad 2 10.78 81 1.4L
Class C Sprint Class C Saltbush Flat Tally Room 6 7.46 106 9.4L
Standing Start Trot Class B Gidgee Paceway Red Gum Rebel 8 17.12 51 13L
Class A Synthetic Class A Tin Creek Tally Room 10 22.62 37 20L
Trial Trial Wattle Hill Tally Room 5 6.69 128 8.4L

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

  • Red Gum Rebel won the Class C Mobile Pace at Kurrajong off 309 numbers at $2.74, in 1:53.8, by a neck.
  • Spinifex Lad second in the Class B Sprint at Brolga Park, 1.4 lengths off 81 numbers at $10.78.
  • Tally Room is nought from four in the settled window, off blocks of 128, 37, 106 and 28 numbers, finishing fifth, tenth, sixth and ninth.
  • Ridgeback holds 281 numbers in the Jacaranda Cup, 35.7 per cent at $2.80, on a book of 127.0 — the largest the circuit prints.

On the record

the desk, on what the figures carry

Pentland is an engine persona, as all eighteen of the circuit's drivers, jockeys and trainers are: the names are attached to the colours and the colours are what the draw selects. The stable is four runners and spans three codes — Ridgeback with seven engagements and Tally Room with nine on the gallops, Red Gum Rebel with five in harness, and Spinifex Lad with two at Brolga Park. Each of the eight trainers on this circuit holds exactly one of the eight Kurrajong pacers, and his is Red Gum Rebel.

Seven runners have settled for one win and one second. Red Gum Rebel held 309 of the 1,000 numbers in the Class C Mobile Pace and won at $2.74, the shortest price any winner has returned here. Spinifex Lad was second at Brolga Park off 81 numbers. Tally Room has run four times for blocks of 128, 37, 106 and 28 numbers and finished fifth, tenth, sixth and ninth, which is the record of a runner the cards have not favoured rather than a slump. The seven settled runners held 740 numbers for an expected 0.74 wins.

Sixteen runners are still to come, holding 1,285 numbers for an expected 1.29 wins. Ridgeback carries most of it: 281 numbers in the Jacaranda Cup at $2.80 and 212 in the Maiden Flat at $3.95, against 29 in today's Handicap Flat. Tally Room is weighted at nine numbers in the Saltbush Dash, 0.9 per cent at $88.39, the second-longest price on the published programme.

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