Racing · The DiagnosisPublished · 2026-08-09
The Diagnosis
ATE IRON's win at Ballarat Synthetic was faster than 25% of everything run at the trip
ATE IRON won race 1 at Ballarat Synthetic, faster than 88% of the field it beat and 6% of everything clocked at the track. What the run was actually worth.
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ATE IRON won race 1 at Ballarat Synthetic on Synthetic over 2100m, averaging 15.58 m/s. That is the result. The run is what follows — the same performance measured against every population that gives it meaning.
| The run, measured against |
|---|
| faster than 88% of the field it beat |
| faster than 25% of everything clocked at this trip and going |
| faster than 11% of Mitchell Aitken's rides |
| faster than 24% of John Symons & Sheila Laxon's runners |
| faster than 6% of everything clocked at the track |
| started 2 of 8 in the market at $3.9 |
| 2 of 2 experts were on it |
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 2026-08-09Partial horse withheld — the evidence didn't support it
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