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Racing · The DiagnosisPublished · 2026-08-13
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BOLD ARTIC won at Rockhampton from 4 of 7 in the market, and 19% of the track

BOLD ARTIC won race 2 at Rockhampton. What the run was actually worth.
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BOLD ARTIC won race 2 at Rockhampton on Good 4 over 1400m, averaging 16.82 m/s. That is the result. The run is what follows — the same performance measured against every population that gives it meaning.

GALLOP card — BOLD ARTIC, the shape of the win at Rockhampton
BOLD ARTIC · Rockhampton R2 · the official GALLOP race profile
The run, measured against
faster than 44% of its own clocked runs
faster than 81% of everything clocked at this trip and going
faster than 25% of Warwick Satherley's rides
faster than 30% of Garnett Taylor's runners
faster than 19% of everything clocked at the track
started 4 of 7 in the market at $8.0
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 2026-08-13Partial field withheld — the evidence didn't support it
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