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Trainer · Mallee Park

Trudy Aspinall

The smallest book on the programme at 16 engagements, no winner from six settled runners, two seconds and a third.

  • 0Season wins
  • 6Runners
  • 0.0%Strike
  • 7 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
Base venue
Mallee Park
Standings
7 of 8 on wins
Prizemoney
—

Trudy Aspinall sits 7 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
6
Wins
0
Seconds
2
Thirds
1
Placings
3
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

10 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 Long Paddock 10 43.39 19
Saltbush Dash Feature Saltbush Flat Dry Lightning 12 5.89 135
Kurrajong Mile Feature Kurrajong Paceway Night Shift 7 3.22 271
Class B Mobile Pace Class B Kurrajong Paceway Night Shift 4 3.57 242
Tin Creek Classic Feature Tin Creek Dry Lightning 1 5.70 147
Tin Creek Classic Feature Tin Creek Long Paddock 10 6.86 122
Gidgee Pace Feature Gidgee Paceway Night Shift 6 27.29 31
Coorong Nightcap Feature Coorong Park Dry Lightning 2 33.53 25
The Meridian Feature Mallee Park Long Paddock 4 11.65 69
Maiden Flat Maiden Mallee Park Dry Lightning 9 3.55 236

Recent cards

last 6 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
Class B Flat Class B Mallee Park Dry Lightning 6 21.46 38 9.8L
Class C Sprint Class C Saltbush Flat Long Paddock 4 6.54 121 2.4L
Class C Sprint Class C Saltbush Flat Dry Lightning 2 4.28 185 1.8L
Standing Start Trot Class B Gidgee Paceway Night Shift 2 3.41 256 1.6L
Class A Synthetic Class A Tin Creek Dry Lightning 9 41.84 20 17L

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

  • Night Shift second in the Standing Start Trot at Gidgee Paceway, 1.6 lengths off 256 numbers — the biggest block in that field.
  • Dry Lightning second in the Class C Sprint at Saltbush Flat, 1.8 lengths off 185 numbers at $4.28.
  • Night Shift third in the Class C Mobile Pace at Kurrajong, 1.2 lengths off 99 numbers at $8.56.
  • Night Shift holds 271 numbers in tonight's Kurrajong Mile, 31.1 per cent on a book of 114.6 — the smallest book of the thirteen cards ahead.

On the record

the desk, on what the figures carry

Aspinall is an engine persona, as every driver, jockey and trainer on a simulated circuit must be: the name is attached to the colours. The stable is three runners — Dry Lightning with seven engagements, Night Shift with five and Long Paddock with four — 16 in all, the smallest book on the published programme.

Six runners have settled for two seconds and a third, no winner. Night Shift held 256 of the 1,000 numbers in the Standing Start Trot, the largest block in the field, and was beaten 1.6 lengths from the second line by a runner holding 165 on the front line. It held 99 numbers in the Class C Mobile Pace and was third at 1.2 lengths. Dry Lightning was second off 185 numbers in the Class C Sprint and ninth off 20 in the Class A Synthetic. The six held 719 numbers for an expected 0.72 wins.

Ten runners remain, holding 1,297 numbers for an expected 1.30 wins — the heaviest forward book per runner of any stable. Night Shift is weighted at 271 numbers in tonight's Kurrajong Mile and 242 in the Class B Mobile Pace twenty-four minutes later, and at 31 in tomorrow's Gidgee Pace at $27.29. Dry Lightning holds 236 numbers in the Maiden Flat, the largest block in a maiden field the desk expected to be weighted flat and which is not.

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