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Chestnut Thunder is a 13 year old chestnut gelding. Chestnut Thunder is trained by Tyson Barton, at Kilmore and owned by T N Barton & G J Barton.
Chestnut Thunder’s last race event was at 14/04/2025 and it has not been nominated for any upcoming race.
Career form is 5 wins, 5 seconds, 5 thirds from 68 starts with a lifetime career prize money of $120,945.
With a 7% Win Percentage and 22% Place Percentage. Chestnut Thunder's last race event was at Benalla.
Exposed form for its last starts is 9-5-3-6-5.
Last Updated: 14/04/2025
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