The card
Today, 25 October 2026 · as at 25 October 2026
- Venue
- Kurrajong Paceway
- Code
- Harness
- Class
- Feature
- Distance
- 1609m
- Start
- Mobile
- Surface
- Limestone
- Cycle
- Twilight
- Each way
- 1/5 odds, places 1-2-3
The Kurrajong Mile is the feature at Kurrajong Paceway and the race the free play-credit game runs: 1609 metres from a mobile start at 7.42pm, draw id KUR-R4-9FDFCB. The lap is a true metric mile, so the trip is one circuit of the limestone and the winner's mile rate is simply its time. The eight pacers here are the eight in the game at play/, same saddlecloth numbers and same liveries.
All eight sit on the front line, because a mobile at Kurrajong scores up behind the barrier arms and the arms hold eight. Night Shift holds 271 of the 1,000 numbers from barrier seven, Black Stump 199 from barrier two and Copper Creek 162 from barrier four. The thinnest is Salt Pan on 44, a spread of a little over six-fold — the second flattest table of the five cards running today.
The book is 114.6, the tightest of the five cards running today. Fourteen and a half points of overround go on as one multiplier of 1.146, which reads Night Shift's 27.1 per cent as an implied 31.1 and Salt Pan's 4.4 as 5.0. The pegs, the sprint lane and the death seat all appear on screen and none of them holds a number.
Field
8 runners · no scratchings on this circuit
| No | Colours | Barrier | Runner | Driver | Trainer | Form | Record | Price | Numbers | Implied | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Bluebush Boy | Dale Prentice | Bronwyn Esch | 01456 | 59-11-12-6 | 6.06 | 144 | 16.5% | Barrier one and the pegs with 144 numbers, fourth block, from 59 career starts for eleven wins — the most starts of the eight. | |
| 2 | 2 | Black Stump | Ange Vuletich | Nam Tran | 45144 | 57-13-5-4 | 4.38 | 199 | 22.8% | One hundred and ninety-nine numbers from barrier two, second block, and a career strike rate of 22.8 per cent that matches its implied percentage to the decimal. | |
| 3 | 3 | Salt Pan | Marnie Kessel | Coen McTiernan | 20368 | 26-4-5-3 | 19.83 | 44 | 5.0% | Forty-four numbers from barrier three, the thinnest block in the demo field, and barrier three is the only barrier the programme has given Marnie Kessel on any of the 21 cards. | |
| 4 | 4 | Copper Creek | Sam Oyelaran | Vera Lindqvist | 79435 | 17-3-1-2 | 5.39 | 162 | 18.6% | One hundred and sixty-two numbers off barrier four, third block, from the shortest career of the eight pacers at seventeen starts. | |
| 5 | 5 | Gidgee Gold | Pia Castellan | Faisal Karim | 81772 | 35-9-6-5 | 15.31 | 57 | 6.5% | Fifty-seven numbers from barrier five with the best career strike rate of the eight pacers, 25.7 per cent from 35 starts. | |
| 6 | 6 | Harbour Flyer | Bess Tranter | Dorrie Slack-Smith | 44517 | 56-12-8-8 | 18.18 | 48 | 5.5% | Forty-eight numbers off barrier six, 4.8 per cent, and 352 numbers in the Class B twenty-four minutes later. | |
| 7 | 7 | Night Shift | Col Yarrow | Trudy Aspinall | 77823 | 55-7-8-10 | 3.22 | 271 | 31.1% | The top block at 271 numbers from barrier seven, 27.1 per cent, against the lowest career strike rate of the eight at 12.7 per cent. | |
| 8 | 8 | Red Gum Rebel | Ned Forrester | Hugh Pentland | 96081 | 52-9-7-6 | 11.63 | 75 | 8.6% | Seventy-five numbers off barrier eight, a night after winning the Class C Mobile Pace here from a block of 309 at $2.74. |
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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.
A field is fixed when the card is published: there are no scratchings, no non-runners and no starting price. Why that follows from the draw.
The draw
The result is a weighted draw of 1,000 numbers without replacement: each runner holds a block of numbers in proportion to its price, a number is drawn once, and the animation is rendered from the order that comes out. Everything used to produce this race is printed below, so the race can be reconstructed.
- Draw id
- KUR-R4-9FDFCB
- Engine
- GP-Draw 4.2
- Seed
- 9fdfcb9f663c7980
- Numbers in the draw
- 1,000
- Book
- 114.6%
- Margin
- 14.6%
A draw without replacement cannot produce a dead heat, and a field that is fixed at publication cannot produce a late scratching. How a virtual race is decided works through the arithmetic in full.
The form desk
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Top of the market
3.22 271 numbers · 27.1% true
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Where the book is thinnest
4.38 199 numbers · 19.9% true
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The outsider
19.83 44 numbers · 4.4% true
The position this masthead takes on every card: the order comes out of a weighted draw, form cannot reach forward into it, and the argument below is about the table. The full column is in the form desk.
This is the card to read beside the game, because it is the same eight runners and the same eight numbers. Night Shift holds 271, which is 72 clear of Black Stump and more than six times Salt Pan's 44. Four of the eight hold fewer than a hundred numbers. At a book of 114.6 the points of margin run from 4.0 on the top block down to 0.6 on the thinnest, which is the same proportion applied eight times.
Two of these pacers were on the Class C card here last night. Red Gum Rebel won it from 309 numbers and returned $2.74; tonight it holds 75 from barrier eight. Harbour Flyer ran seventh of eight from 81 numbers; tonight it holds 48, and twenty-four minutes later it holds 352, the largest single block in the published programme. Three tables, one pacer, no arithmetic connecting them.
The demo is the plainest demonstration the site has of the whole method, which is why it lives on the feature card: play credits only, no money, no deposits, no prizes, nothing to win or lose. The weighting table, the seed and the settle time are published here exactly as they are everywhere else, and after the race the whole card can be reconstructed from them.
Ilsa Brandt, Games and culture
Form desk columns are editorial opinion only. They are not financial advice, not investment recommendations and not an inducement to wager. A weighted draw has no form to read in the predictive sense; what these columns argue about is the published weighting.
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