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Jockey · Mallee Park

Priya Sandhu

Two wins from five settled rides off the second-smallest book on the circuit, and 1,221 numbers waiting across the nine rides ahead.

  • 2Season wins
  • 5Rides
  • 40.0%Strike
  • 1 of 6Standing

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
Jockey
Code
Thoroughbred, Jumps
Base venue
Mallee Park
Standings
1 of 6 on wins
Prizemoney
—

Priya Sandhu sits 1 of 6 jockeys 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

Rides
5
Wins
2
Seconds
1
Thirds
0
Placings
1
Strike
40.0%

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

9 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 Ridgeback 2 28.43 29
Saltbush Dash Feature Saltbush Flat Pennyroyal 1 8.46 94
Tin Creek Classic Feature Tin Creek Dry Lightning 1 5.70 147
Coorong Nightcap Feature Coorong Park Stockyard Gate 6 2.64 317
Jacaranda Cup Feature Jacaranda Downs Paper Lantern 6 17.91 44
The Meridian Feature Mallee Park Marble Bar 2 24.36 33
Wattle Hill Cup Feature Wattle Hill Paper Lantern 3 3.17 259
Maiden Flat Maiden Mallee Park Fence Line 3 9.31 90
Bellbird Steeple Feature Bellbird Rise Half Mast 1 4.13 208

Recent cards

last 5 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 B Flat Class B Mallee Park Half Mast 10 40.78 20 27L
Class C Sprint Class C Saltbush Flat Bitumen 11 87.90 9 26L
Class A Synthetic Class A Tin Creek Stockyard Gate 1 5.51 152 —
Trial Trial Wattle Hill Stockyard Gate 1 12.78 67 —
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

  • Won the Trial at Wattle Hill on Stockyard Gate, 67 numbers at $12.78 in 1:22.0.
  • Won the Class A Synthetic at Tin Creek on Stockyard Gate, 152 numbers at $5.51 in 1:55.4, three-quarters of a length clear.
  • Second in the Handicap Hurdle at Bellbird Rise on Old Telegraph, 1.7 lengths off 177 numbers at $4.80.
  • Her five settled rides held 425 numbers for an expected 0.43 wins. She has two.
  • Rode Bitumen off nine numbers at $87.90 in the Class C Sprint and finished eleventh of twelve, 26 lengths back.

On the record

the desk, on what the figures carry

Sandhu is an engine persona, like every driver, jockey and trainer on this circuit: the name is attached to the colours and the draw decides the rest. Her column is the one that most needs the denominator printed next to it. Two wins from five rides is 40 per cent, and the five rides held 425 of the 5,000 numbers drawn across them, an expected 0.43 wins.

Both winners were Stockyard Gate, off 67 numbers in the Trial at $12.78 and 152 in the Class A Synthetic at $5.51. The other three rides are the argument for reading the weights rather than the record: Old Telegraph second off 177 numbers in the Handicap Hurdle, Half Mast tenth of ten off 20 numbers at Mallee Park while a runner on the identical 20-number block won the same race, and Bitumen eleventh of twelve off nine numbers at $87.90, the longest price in the settled window.

Nine rides remain and they hold 1,221 numbers, the largest forward book of any rider on the programme and an expected 1.22 wins. Stockyard Gate on 317 numbers in the Coorong Nightcap at $2.64 is the shortest of them, Paper Lantern on 259 in the Wattle Hill Cup next, and Ridgeback on 29 in today's Handicap Flat the longest. None of it follows from the two winners.

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