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Driver · Kurrajong Paceway

Sam Oyelaran

Barrier four in all five published drives, no win from the two that settled, and the largest forward book of the four drivers at 742 numbers.

  • 0Season wins
  • 2Drives
  • 0.0%Strike
  • 4 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
4 of 4 on wins
Prizemoney
—

Sam Oyelaran sits 4 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
0
Seconds
0
Thirds
1
Placings
1
Strike
0.0%

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 Copper Creek 4 5.39 162
Class B Mobile Pace Class B Kurrajong Paceway Night Shift 4 3.57 242
Gidgee Pace Feature Gidgee Paceway Harbour Flyer 4 2.50 338

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 Night Shift 3 8.56 99 1.2L
Standing Start Trot Class B Gidgee Paceway Red Gum Rebel 8 17.12 51 13L

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

  • Third in the Class C Mobile Pace at Kurrajong on Night Shift, 1.2 lengths off 99 numbers at $8.56.
  • Last of eight in the Standing Start Trot at Gidgee Paceway on Red Gum Rebel, 13 lengths off 51 numbers.
  • His two settled drives held 150 numbers between them, the smallest driver book in the window, for an expected 0.15 wins. He has none.
  • Harbour Flyer holds 338 numbers for him in the Gidgee Pace, 40.0 per cent at $2.50 — the largest block the programme has put beside a profiled driver.

On the record

the desk, on what the figures carry

Oyelaran is an engine persona, as every driver, jockey and trainer here is: the names are attached to the colours and the colours are drawn by the engine. All five of his published drives come from barrier four, which makes him and Marnie Kessel the only two the programme has left on one mark.

The settled pair are a third and a last. Night Shift held 99 numbers in the Class C Mobile Pace and finished 1.2 lengths away in third at $8.56. Red Gum Rebel held 51 in the Standing Start Trot and ran eighth of eight, 13 lengths back, at $17.12. The two drives carried 150 numbers in total and an expected 0.15 wins, the thinnest share any driver has been given in the settled window.

The three drives ahead reverse that completely: 742 numbers, an expected 0.74 wins, more than any other driver on the forward programme. Copper Creek on 162 in the Kurrajong Mile, Night Shift on 242 in the Class B Mobile Pace, then Harbour Flyer on 338 in the Gidgee Pace at $2.50, an implied 40.0 per cent on a book of 118.4. Nothing in the paragraph above had any bearing on any of it.

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