Donald

About this course

Country · Turf · 1747m circumference · 350m straight · anticlockwise

Donald races in the Victorian Wimmera, on a course of two straights and two turns with a long sweeping run to the home turn and a wide main straight. The district has been racing here since the eighteen-seventies, and the present club was formed when the Donald and Corack clubs joined in the nineteen-sixties.

We hold 67 races from the course, where fields have averaged 10.4 runners and 1350 metres is the trip it uses most. Tony & Calvin McEvoy has 4 wins from 9 runners at the track.

Course stats

Favourite

won 25 of 62 races (40.3%)

Barrier

1-4 10.2% (264 runs)5-8 10.3% (253 runs)9+ 7.9% (177 runs)

Distances

1350m (16)1620m (14)1000m (11)

Going

Good (44)Soft (14)Heavy (9)

On-pace

7.1pp more likely to place than the field average, on good going (70 runs)

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