Sandown-Lakeside

Heavy 9Rail: True Entire Circuit—12:25–16:30

Meeting overview

Sandown-Lakeside in VIC hosts a metro meeting on Heavy 9. The rail is True Entire Circuit. There are 8 races scheduled from 12:25 to 16:30.

The card

Distances run from 1,200m to 2,400m across the card. The class mix is 7 benchmark races and 1 other race. The card leans toward middle-distance races. The feature race of the day is Sportsbet Jockey Watch Hcp.

What history says

Over 128 races from 2025-06-01 to 2026-06-03, settling position flags backmarkers (11+) as the clearest profile, underperforming market expectation (0.16 A/E, 1.2% strike rate).

Trainer A & S Freedman has 2 runners and a 25.7% local strike rate from 35 runs (1.66 A/E) and Jockey Daniel Stackhouse has 2 runners and a 15.6% local strike rate from 45 runs (1.37 A/E).

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Track profile: Sandown-Lakeside

128 races · 1222 runners · since 2025-06-01

Today’s angles — 2+ runners here today & A/E > 1

TA & S Freedman2 todayA/E 1.66JRyan Houston2 todayA/E 1.54JJordan Childs2 todayA/E 1.38JDaniel Stackhouse2 todayA/E 1.37TD T O'Brien2 todayA/E 1.25JHarry Coffey3 todayA/E 1.01

Barrier draw

	Runs	Wins	% Win	SR	A/E
Inside (1–4)	479	42	32.8%	8.8%	0.66
Middle (5–9)	529	61	47.7%	11.5%	0.91
Wide (10+)	214	25	19.5%	11.7%	1.12

Settling position

	Runs	Wins	% Win	SR	A/E
Leaders (1–3)	380	63	49.2%	16.6%	1.06
On-pace (4–6)	378	32	25%	8.5%	0.63
Midfield (7–10)	364	31	24.2%	8.5%	0.89
Backmarkers (11+)	86	1	0.8%	1.2%	0.16
Unknown	14	1	0.8%	7.1%	0.62

Market (SP)

	Runs	Wins	% Win	SR	A/E
Odds-on (≤$2)	11	9	7%	81.8%	1.40
Pop ($2–5)	255	62	48.4%	24.3%	0.86
Mid ($5–10)	337	32	25%	9.5%	0.70
Roughie (>$10)	619	25	19.5%	4%	0.85

A/E = actual wins ÷ market-expected wins (Σ 1/SP). Above 1.0 (green) beats the market here; below 0.9 (red) lags. Strong bias day = a past meeting where one run-style won >65% of races (≥5 winners). “Today” = runners engaged here today.