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Racing · The DiagnosisPublished · 2026-08-08
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BATEMANS BAY won at Townsville on one of its slower days — 31% of its own runs

BATEMANS BAY won race 2 at Townsville, faster than 93% of the field it beat and 4% of everything clocked at the track. What the run was actually worth.
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BATEMANS BAY won race 2 at Townsville on Good 4 over 2000m, averaging 16.23 m/s. That is the result. The run is what follows — the same performance measured against every population that gives it meaning.

GALLOP card — BATEMANS BAY, the shape of the win at Townsville
BATEMANS BAY · Townsville R2 · the official GALLOP race profile
The run, measured against
faster than 31% of its own clocked runs
faster than 93% of the field it beat
faster than 84% of everything clocked at this trip and going
faster than 15% of Nathan Thomas's rides
faster than 15% of Alisha Taylor's runners
faster than 4% of everything clocked at the track
started 5 of 15 in the market at $8.5
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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 2026-08-08
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