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Racing · The DiagnosisPublished · 2026-08-01
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ALBERTA BOUND won at Townsville on one of its slower days — 9% of its own runs

ALBERTA BOUND won race 2 at Townsville, faster than 88% of the field it beat and 31% of everything clocked at the track. What the run was actually worth.
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ALBERTA BOUND won race 2 at Townsville on Soft 5 over 1200m, averaging 16.97 m/s. That is the result. The run is what follows — the same performance measured against every population that gives it meaning.

GALLOP card — ALBERTA BOUND, the shape of the win at Townsville
ALBERTA BOUND · Townsville R2 · the official GALLOP race profile
The run, measured against
faster than 9% of its own clocked runs
faster than 88% of the field it beat
faster than 90% of everything clocked at this trip and going
faster than 51% of Ryan Wiggins's rides
faster than 56% of Graham Hughes's runners
faster than 31% of everything clocked at the track
started 1 of 8 in the market at $1.1

Read down that list and the win either grows or shrinks. That is the whole point: the race says where they finished, the clock says how fast they actually went, and only one of those two survives contact with the next start.

Evidence Actual Sport IntelligencePublished 2026-08-01
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