Canberra Acton

About this course

Provincial · Synthetic · anticlockwise

Acton is the all-weather circuit at Thoroughbred Park, laid alongside Canberra's turf course in a redevelopment and raced as its own venue since. An all-weather surface holds meetings through weather that would put grass racing in doubt, so it carries a share of the calendar the turf course cannot.

It is provincial, Synthetic, run anticlockwise in ACT. Across the 68 races in our database, fields have averaged 9.6 runners, and 1080 metres is the distance it uses most. R.J.Potter has 7 wins from 36 runners here, and Sunburnt Country has won 3 of 5 starts.

Course stats

Favourite

won 15 of 68 races (22.1%)

Barrier

1-4 14.1% (270 runs)5-8 8.2% (256 runs)9+ 7.1% (126 runs)

Distances

1080m (21)1280m (20)1206m (11)

Going

Synth (68)

On-pace

1.6pp more likely to place than the field average, on synthetic going (63 runs)

Specialists

Sunburnt Country 3/5Bombelleistic 2/3Who But Roo 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.