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Skim is a 7 year old bay mare. Skim is trained by Tara Taggart, at Cranbourne and owned by Mrs T L Taggart & Miss L F Penn.
Skim’s last race event was at 29/03/2018 and it has not been nominated for any upcoming race.
Career form is 1 wins, 3 seconds, 1 thirds from 39 starts with a lifetime career prize money of $40,837.
With a 3% Win Percentage and 13% Place Percentage. Skim's last race event was at Pakenham.
Exposed form for its last starts is 8-0-6-0-6.
Last Updated: 30/03/2018
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