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Skillful
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Trained by David Vandyke at Sunshine Coast, Skillful is a 2024 year old gelding by the sire Al Maher, out of the dam Intralase.

He has won a total of 5 races from 28 starts for a win percentage of 18%. His career earnings are $140k, with the biggest win of his career coming at Doomben on July 19th in 2017 when he won $12,800 in the Ubet Handicap (a handicap race over 1,660 metres).

Betting level stakes of $100 win on all of the horse's starts would have yielded a loss of $-755.

The gelding tends to run better on good ground, with an average prize money per start of $7k in those conditions.

Career Statistics

Overall
Prize Money
$140k
Starts
28
Wins
5
Second
2
Third
7
Win %
18
Place %
50
Profit
-7.6
Conditions
Good
16
3-2-2
$7k
Soft
12
2-0-2
$3k
Heavy
0
0-0-0
$0k
Race Standard
All
0
0-0-0
Group 1
0
0-0-0
Group 2
0
0-0-0
Group 3
0
0-0-0
Race Distance
1600m
1
0-0-0
-1
1400m
3
0-0-0
-3
1350m
1
0-0-1
-1
1615m
1
0-0-1
-1
1660m
1
1-0-0
+1.45
1300m
1
0-0-0
-1
1250m
2
0-0-1
-2
Race Track
Sunshine Coast
2
0-0-0
-2
Ipswich
1
0-0-1
-1
Doomben
2
1-0-1
+0.45
Gold Coast
1
0-0-0
-1
Canterbury
2
0-0-1
-2
Warwick Farm
1
0-0-0
-1
Randwick
1
0-0-0
-1
Race State
QLD
6
1-0-2
+1.45
NSW
4
0-0-1

Race History

Mar-4 18
4/
6.9
4.6
Sunshine Coast
5
1600
Get Wines Direct (Bm75)
$1k
$16k
59
104.41
-
3
1,2,1
-3
Feb-18 18
5/
3.3
4
Sunshine Coast
4
1400
Noosa On The Beach Resort-Bm80
$0k
$16k
57
87.54
-
7
6,7
+2
Jan-31 18
3/
1.5
9
Ipswich
3
1350
City Of Ipswich Handicap (C5)
$2k
$20k
59
81.32
-
6
6,5
+2
Aug-5 17
3/
3.0
3.6
Doomben
4
1615
Queensland Breeders Handicap (C6)
$5k
$60k
55
101.38
-
2
2,4,3
Jul-19 17
1/
0.0
2.45
Doomben
6
1660
Ubet Handicap (C3)
$13k
$20k
59½
102.53
-
4
4,3,3
+2
Jul-5 17
4/
5.9
6.5
Gold Coast
4
1300
Sky Racing Plate (C3)
$1k
$20k
59
83.71
-
8,7
May-24 17
3/
3.4
16
Canterbury
6
1250
Bowermans Office F'niture-Bm72
$4k
$40k
60
78.42
-
7,7
May-17 17
13/
4.0
10
Warwick Farm
3
1400
#theraces (Bm72)
$0k
$40k
58½
87.66
-
10
10,11
-2
Apr-25 17
5/
5.4
6
Randwick
7
1400
Battle Of Messines (Bm72)
$1k
$50k
59½
91.90
-
8
8,8
+3
Apr-17 17
7/
4.5
31
Canterbury
7
1250
(Bm72)
$1k
$50k
60
80.64
-
12,12