Ballina

About this course

1600m circumference · 350m straight · clockwise

Ballina races on the far north coast, close-turning and narrow enough that the club has been the site's sole tenant since the nineteen-fifties without ever needing to widen it. A tight track with a moderate run home tends to keep the draw honest — there is less room out wide to make up for a bad one than at a bigger course.

We hold 93 races from the track in NSW, run clockwise, with fields averaging 8.2 runners and 1000 metres the most commonly programmed trip. M.J.Dunn has 16 wins from 56 runners, and Inquisitor has won 2 of 2 starts.

Course stats

Favourite

won 36 of 93 races (38.7%)

Barrier

1-4 15.6% (358 runs)5-8 9.4% (307 runs)9+ 9.6% (94 runs)

Distances

1000m (15)1250m (11)1015m (10)

Going

Good (47)Heavy (27)Soft (15)

Specialists

Inquisitor 2/2Giapponese 2/2Mad Ana 2/2

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