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Sunshine Coast

TurfRail: True—12:23–17:25

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Meeting overview

Sunshine Coast in QLD hosts a provincial meeting on Turf. The rail is True. There are 9 races scheduled from 12:23 to 17:25.

The card

Distances run from 1,000m to 2,400m across the card. The class mix is 3 benchmark races and 6 other races. The card leans toward sprint trips. The feature race of the day is Stanley River Thoroughbreds Caloundra Cup.

What history says

Over 430 races from 2025-05-03 to 2026-06-21, settling position flags backmarkers (11+) as the clearest profile, underperforming market expectation (0.49 A/E, 3.2% strike rate).

Trainer Billy Healey has 2 runners and a 16.3% local strike rate from 123 runs (1.23 A/E) and Jockey Tiffani Brooker has 6 runners and a 11.8% local strike rate from 136 runs (1.14 A/E).

This overview is generated automatically from real race data by the HoofMetrics data engine — it is not AI-written. If you have feedback, email hello@hoofmetrics.com.Generated by HoofMetrics data engine (deterministic).

Track profile: Sunshine Coast

430 races · 4103 runners · since 2025-05-03

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

TSharryn Livingstone2 todayA/E 2.43JTaylor Marshall8 todayA/E 1.63TJ W Healy2 todayA/E 1.61TS A Dwyer4 todayA/E 1.56JRon Stewart5 todayA/E 1.53TK R Kemp3 todayA/E 1.45TBarry Lockwood & Emma-Jane Vincent2 todayA/E 1.38TBilly Healey2 todayA/E 1.23JMichael Rodd5 todayA/E 1.18JTiffani Brooker6 todayA/E 1.14TM J Dunn4 todayA/E 1.08TK M Schweida7 todayA/E 1.01

Barrier draw

	Runs	Wins	% Win	SR	A/E
Inside (1–4)	1632	200	46.5%	12.3%	0.83
Middle (5–9)	1685	162	37.7%	9.6%	0.79
Wide (10+)	786	68	15.8%	8.7%	0.92

Settling position

	Runs	Wins	% Win	SR	A/E
Leaders (1–3)	885	136	31.6%	15.4%	0.93
On-pace (4–6)	861	88	20.5%	10.2%	0.76
Midfield (7–10)	820	62	14.4%	7.6%	0.80
Backmarkers (11+)	281	9	2.1%	3.2%	0.49
Unknown	1256	135	31.4%	10.7%	0.82

Market (SP)

	Runs	Wins	% Win	SR	A/E
Odds-on (≤$2)	95	53	12.3%	55.8%	0.94
Pop ($2–5)	847	208	48.4%	24.6%	0.86
Mid ($5–10)	981	111	25.8%	11.3%	0.84
Roughie (>$10)	2180	58	13.5%	2.7%	0.63

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.