Canberra

About this course

Provincial · Turf · 1815m circumference · 400m straight · anticlockwise

Canberra races at Lyneham, Australian Capital Territory, opened in 1962 and the only provincial course in the territory. It has raced on this ground for over a century and is widely rated one of the fairer circuits in the region — a long home straight relative to its size, so the draw and the turn matter less here than at most tracks. An all-weather circuit shares the site and races separately.

It is Turf, run anticlockwise. Our database holds 139 of its races, where fields have averaged 9.2 runners and 1000 metres is the trip it schedules most often. L.J.Pepper has 12 wins from 88 runners here, and Music Time has won 3 of 4 starts.

Course stats

Favourite

won 44 of 139 races (31.7%)

Distances

1000m (38)1300m (26)1600m (21)

Going

Soft (103)Good (35)Heavy (1)

On-pace

−10pp less likely to place than the field average, on soft going (71 runs)

Specialists

Music Time 3/4Vella's Best 2/2Urafiki 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.