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Racing · The DiagnosisPublished · 2026-08-02
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BIG TICKET BOY won at Sunshine Coast on one of its slower days — 9% of its own runs

BIG TICKET BOY won race 4 at Sunshine Coast and 12% of everything clocked at the track. What the run was actually worth.
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BIG TICKET BOY won race 4 at Sunshine Coast on Soft 7 over 1800m, averaging 15.92 m/s. That is the result. The run is what follows — the same performance measured against every population that gives it meaning.

GALLOP card — BIG TICKET BOY, the shape of the win at Sunshine Coast
BIG TICKET BOY · Sunshine Coast R4 · the official GALLOP race profile
The run, measured against
faster than 9% of its own clocked runs
faster than 49% of everything clocked at this trip and going
faster than 15% of Ms Tiffani Brooker's rides
faster than 11% of Lindsay Gough's runners
faster than 12% of everything clocked at the track
started 3 of 7 in the market at $3.6
1 of 1 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 2026-08-02Partial field withheld — the evidence didn't support it
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