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Trainer · Mallee Park

Nam Tran

Four runners and 23 engagements, no winner from eight settled starts, and one runner the cards have weighted between 327 numbers and ten.

  • 0Season wins
  • 8Runners
  • 0.0%Strike
  • 6 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
6 of 8 on wins
Prizemoney
—

Nam Tran sits 6 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
8
Wins
0
Seconds
1
Thirds
0
Placings
1
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

15 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 Paper Lantern 1 37.47 22
Handicap Flat Class A Mallee Park Sunday Pages 9 4.85 170
Saltbush Dash Feature Saltbush Flat Paper Lantern 3 3.65 218
Saltbush Dash Feature Saltbush Flat Sunday Pages 8 41.87 19
Kurrajong Mile Feature Kurrajong Paceway Black Stump 2 4.38 199
Class B Mobile Pace Class B Kurrajong Paceway Black Stump 2 31.98 27
Brolga Dash Feature Brolga Park Brindle Jack 1 12.01 72
Tin Creek Classic Feature Tin Creek Sunday Pages 5 2.56 327
Gidgee Pace Feature Gidgee Paceway Black Stump 3 9.00 94
Jacaranda Cup Feature Jacaranda Downs Paper Lantern 6 17.91 44
The Meridian Feature Mallee Park Sunday Pages 3 80.39 10
The Meridian Feature Mallee Park Paper Lantern 5 7.88 102
Wattle Hill Cup Feature Wattle Hill Paper Lantern 3 3.17 259
Wattle Hill Cup Feature Wattle Hill Sunday Pages 10 22.79 36
Maiden Flat Maiden Mallee Park Sunday Pages 5 10.47 80

Recent cards

last 8 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 Black Stump 4 7.24 117 3.2L
Class B Flat Class B Mallee Park Sunday Pages 5 11.02 74 8.5L
Class B Sprint Class B Brolga Park Brindle Jack 8 3.62 241 13L
Class C Sprint Class C Saltbush Flat Sunday Pages 8 21.98 36 15L
Standing Start Trot Class B Gidgee Paceway Black Stump 4 8.40 104 6.5L
Class A Synthetic Class A Tin Creek Paper Lantern 2 3.93 213 0.75L
Class A Synthetic Class A Tin Creek Sunday Pages 7 28.86 29 11L
Trial Trial Wattle Hill Sunday Pages 8 18.22 47 18L

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

  • Paper Lantern second in the Class A Synthetic at Tin Creek, three-quarters of a length off 213 numbers at $3.93.
  • Sunday Pages' ten engagements run from 327 numbers in the Tin Creek Classic at $2.56 down to ten in The Meridian at $80.39 — a 32.7-fold spread on one runner inside one programme.
  • Brindle Jack held 241 numbers at Brolga Park, the biggest block in the field, and ran last of eight, 13 lengths back.
  • Eight settled runners held 861 numbers for an expected 0.86 wins. The stable has none.

On the record

the desk, on what the figures carry

Tran is an engine persona, like every driver, jockey and trainer on the circuit: a name attached to a set of colours. The stable runs Paper Lantern and Sunday Pages on the gallops, Black Stump in harness and Brindle Jack at Brolga Park, 23 engagements between them.

Eight runners have settled without a winner. The best of them is Paper Lantern, beaten three-quarters of a length off 213 numbers in the Class A Synthetic. The most instructive is Brindle Jack, which held 241 numbers in the Class B Sprint — 24.1 per cent, the largest block in the field — and finished eighth of eight, 13 lengths behind a winner holding 65. The eight settled runners held 861 numbers for an expected 0.86 wins, so a return of nought is a short sample and not a story.

Fifteen runners remain, holding 1,679 numbers for an expected 1.68 wins. Sunday Pages carries the widest range on the programme: 327 numbers in the Tin Creek Classic at $2.56, 170 in today's Handicap Flat, then ten in The Meridian at $80.39 — 32.7 times smaller, two days apart, same horse and same stable. Nothing the runner does in the first race moves the second, because the weighting is a property of the card.

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