Port Augusta

DirtRail: True—12:33–17:00

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Meeting overview

Port Augusta in SA hosts a country meeting on Dirt. The rail is True. There are 8 races scheduled from 12:33 to 17:00.

The card

Distances run from 1,100m to 2,300m across the card. The class mix is 2 maidens, 2 benchmark races, 2 restricted races, and 2 other races. The card leans toward middle-distance races. The feature race of the day is City Of Port Augusta Cup.

What history says

Over 80 races from 2025-05-11 to 2026-06-21, settling position flags backmarkers (11+) as the clearest profile, underperforming market expectation (0.00 A/E, 0.0% strike rate).

Jockey Margaret Collett has 7 runners and a 10.7% local strike rate from 56 runs (1.14 A/E) and Jockey Tala Hutchinson has 7 runners and a 19.4% local strike rate from 31 runs (1.16 A/E).

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Track profile: Port Augusta

80 races · 783 runners · since 2025-05-11

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

TMark Moosha2 todayA/E 2.23TD J McMahon2 todayA/E 2.02JStacey Metcalfe7 todayA/E 1.44TDanny Penna6 todayA/E 1.34JLauren Stojakovic8 todayA/E 1.22TDarren & Aimee Magro3 todayA/E 1.20JTala Hutchinson7 todayA/E 1.16JMargaret Collett7 todayA/E 1.14JWesley Cave6 todayA/E 1.12JDylan Caboche7 todayA/E 1.10TT L Day3 todayA/E 1.08TW A Bogarts3 todayA/E 1.03

Barrier draw

	Runs	Wins	% Win	SR	A/E
Inside (1–4)	302	30	37.5%	9.9%	0.69
Middle (5–9)	354	34	42.5%	9.6%	0.83
Wide (10+)	127	16	20%	12.6%	1.18

Settling position

	Runs	Wins	% Win	SR	A/E
Leaders (1–3)	222	40	50%	18%	1.04
On-pace (4–6)	219	25	31.2%	11.4%	0.96
Midfield (7–10)	235	9	11.2%	3.8%	0.40
Backmarkers (11+)	46	0	0%	0%	0.00
Unknown	61	6	7.5%	9.8%	0.80

Market (SP)

	Runs	Wins	% Win	SR	A/E
Odds-on (≤$2)	12	10	12.5%	83.3%	1.34
Pop ($2–5)	173	35	43.8%	20.2%	0.74
Mid ($5–10)	173	19	23.8%	11%	0.80
Roughie (>$10)	425	16	20%	3.8%	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.