Southside Cranbourne

About this course

Turf · 1700m circumference · 300m straight · anticlockwise

Southside Cranbourne is a grass track in VIC running clockwise over a relatively compact circuit. It sits in the provincial tier, hosting the kind of racing that forms the backbone of Australian thoroughbred schedules rather than the feature-race calendar.

The course's bread-and-butter is the 1200 metre sprint, with typical fields of 8.3 runners. The track has established enough of a pattern that form repeats noticeably: Blethyn, the standout horse in our database across 198 races recorded here, won both its runs at Southside Cranbourne, while trainer J.Sandhu has converted 14 wins from 53 starters—the kind of strike rate that speaks to specialist knowledge of how to get a horse ready for this particular surface and layout.

Course stats

Favourite

won 76 of 198 races (38.4%)

Barrier

1-4 14% (772 runs)5-8 11.2% (669 runs)9+ 7.3% (205 runs)

Distances

1200m (44)1000m (36)1600m (32)

Going

Good (158)Soft (29)Heavy (11)

Specialists

Blethyn 2/2White Hot Mama 2/2Port Albert 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.