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Designs Of Eight is a 5 year old brown or black mare. Designs Of Eight is trained by Maddie Raymond & Patrick Bell, at Warrnambool and owned by Mrs A J Reed, H S Reed & D E Hoffman.
Designs Of Eight’s last race event was at 11/08/2026 and it has not been nominated for any upcoming race.
Career form is 2 wins, 3 seconds, thirds from 17 starts with a lifetime career prize money of $41,260.
With a 12% Win Percentage and 29% Place Percentage. Designs Of Eight's last race event was at Ballarat Synthetic.
Exposed form for its last starts is 2-4-4-2-4.
Last Updated: 11/08/2026
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