bet365 Colac

About this course

Turf · 1740m circumference · 350m straight · anticlockwise

Colac calls itself the gateway to western district racing, and its course has a genuine profile to it: a long steady climb down the back, then a downhill run around the turn and into an almost flat home straight. A horse can be travelling deceptively well at the top of the straight after that descent. The Colac Gold Cup has been run for more than a century.

Across the 30 races in our records, fields have averaged 9.5 runners, and 1200 metres is the distance it uses most. J.W.Edwards has the strongest record among stables with 4 wins from 8 runners, and Cat Noir has won 2 of 2 starts.

Course stats

Favourite

won 9 of 30 races (30%)

Barrier

1-4 9.4% (117 runs)5-8 12.5% (112 runs)9+ 8.9% (56 runs)

Distances

1200m (6)1600m (5)2000m (5)

Going

Good (23)Soft (7)

Specialists

Cat Noir 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.