Albany

About this course

Turf · 1600m circumference · 300m straight · anticlockwise

Albany sits on Western Australia's southern coast, in the Great Southern, with the wind farm and Mt Melville visible beyond the track. It is a symmetrical oval with chutes at the entry and exit of both turns, and the Albany Cup at Easter is its feature day.

Fields here have averaged 10.3 runners over the 127 races in our records, with 1100 metres the most frequently programmed trip. I.Weinert has 18 wins from 131 runners at the course; Wineaclocksumwhere has won 4 of 5 starts.

Course stats

Favourite

won 31 of 127 races (24.4%)

Barrier

1-4 9.9% (504 runs)5-8 10.6% (492 runs)9+ 8% (313 runs)

Distances

1100m (25)1500m (25)1230m (21)

Going

Good (67)Soft (52)Heavy (8)

Specialists

Wineaclocksumwhere 4/5Head'em 4/13We Love Charlie 3/5

From our own results database. Figures appear only where the sample carries them; a missing row means the data is too thin to say.