Barcaldine

TurfRail: True—12:47–16:23

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Meeting overview

Barcaldine in QLD hosts a country meeting on Turf. The rail is True. There are 7 races scheduled from 12:47 to 16:23.

The card

Distances run from 1,000m to 1,600m across the card. The class mix is 1 maiden, 3 benchmark races, and 3 other races. The card leans toward sprint trips. The feature race of the day is Thomas Foods International Hcp.

What history says

Over 27 races from 2025-05-20 to 2026-05-19, barrier draw flags wide (10+) as the clearest profile, running above market expectation (1.63 A/E, 17.0% strike rate).

Trainer P W O'Toole has 8 runners and a 20.0% local strike rate from 30 runs (1.51 A/E) and Trainer Bevan Johnson has 9 runners and a 35.7% local strike rate from 14 runs (2.46 A/E).

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Track profile: Barcaldine

27 races · 262 runners · since 2025-05-20

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

TBevan Johnson9 todayA/E 2.46TP W O'Toole8 todayA/E 1.51TH C Forster6 todayA/E 1.24TB J Richardson2 todayA/E 1.09

Barrier draw

	Runs	Wins	% Win	SR	A/E
Inside (1–4)	102	11	40.7%	10.8%	0.90
Middle (5–9)	113	8	29.6%	7.1%	0.51
Wide (10+)	47	8	29.6%	17%	1.63

Settling position

	Runs	Wins	% Win	SR	A/E
Leaders (1–3)	75	9	33.3%	12%	0.82
On-pace (4–6)	75	10	37%	13.3%	1.00
Midfield (7–10)	75	5	18.5%	6.7%	0.61
Backmarkers (11+)	13	1	3.7%	7.7%	0.84
Unknown	24	2	7.4%	8.3%	0.81

Market (SP)

	Runs	Wins	% Win	SR	A/E
Odds-on (≤$2)	2	1	3.7%	50%	0.75
Pop ($2–5)	67	13	48.1%	19.4%	0.72
Mid ($5–10)	50	7	25.9%	14%	1.05
Roughie (>$10)	143	6	22.2%	4.2%	0.89

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.