Sportsbet Oakbank

About this course

1800m circumference

Oakbank, at Oakwood Road, Oakbank, South Australia, opened in 1876 and holds the Great Eastern Steeplechase every Easter — the second-longest race run on a public course in the country, taking its field well beyond a single circuit of the track. The Easter carnival built around it is the biggest meeting in South Australian country racing, drawing crowds no other picnic-style fixture in the state comes close to.

Racing here is turf. Our database holds 45 of its races, where fields have averaged 10.6 runners and 1400 metres is the trip it schedules most often. C.M.Bieg has 5 wins from 25 runners here, and Brown Nose Day Gal has won 2 of 2 starts.

Course stats

Favourite

won 13 of 45 races (28.9%)

Barrier

1-4 11.6% (173 runs)5-8 10.3% (174 runs)9+ 5.3% (131 runs)

Distances

1400m (17)1050m (13)1900m (6)

Going

Good (31)Soft (12)Heavy (2)

Specialists

Brown Nose Day Gal 2/2Prince Lucifer 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.