Bordertown

About this course

Country · Turf · 1600m circumference · 290m straight · anticlockwise

Bordertown, near the state's eastern border, has raced on its present site since the nineteen-forties. The turns are broad rather than sharp, which is a genuinely fair shape — running position matters less here than at a tighter track, and a horse settled back is not disadvantaged by the bends the way it would be elsewhere.

It is a country Turf course run anticlockwise in SA. We hold 48 races from the course, with fields averaging 10.6 runners and 1550 metres the most commonly programmed trip. J.F.D.Macmillan has 3 wins from 8 runners, and Sazerac has won 2 of 2 starts.

Course stats

Favourite

won 17 of 46 races (37%)

Barrier

1-4 10.6% (189 runs)5-8 9.5% (189 runs)9+ 7.8% (129 runs)

Distances

1550m (14)1200m (13)1300m (9)

Going

Good (28)Soft (12)Heavy (8)

Specialists

Sazerac 2/2Layin' Up 2/3

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