Scone

About this course

Country · Turf · 1902m circumference · 400m straight · clockwise

Scone sits at the top of the Hunter Valley, in the middle of the biggest concentration of thoroughbred breeding in the country, and the racing reflects the neighbourhood — this is a country track that regularly sees better stock than its grade suggests. The course is a symmetrical oval with a long home straight, so there is room to make ground.

It is Turf, run clockwise in NSW. We hold 166 races from the course, with fields averaging 10 runners and 1100 metres the most commonly programmed distance. Brett & Georgie Cavanough has 22 wins from 101 runners here, and Sobek has won 2 of 2 starts.

Course stats

Favourite

won 59 of 158 races (37.3%)

Barrier

1-4 10.3% (652 runs)5-8 10.8% (623 runs)9+ 8.9% (383 runs)

Distances

1100m (26)1000m (24)1300m (22)

Going

Good (91)Soft (61)Heavy (14)

Specialists

Sobek 2/2Maples 2/2Copperline 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.