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Racing · The DiagnosisPublished · 2026-08-11
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CALL ME MAURA's win at Ballarat Synthetic was faster than 32% of everything run at the trip

CALL ME MAURA won race 6 at Ballarat Synthetic, faster than 75% of the field it beat and 54% of everything clocked at the track. What the run was actually worth.
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CALL ME MAURA won race 6 at Ballarat Synthetic on Synthetic over 1200m, averaging 16.3 m/s. That is the result. The run is what follows — the same performance measured against every population that gives it meaning.

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CALL ME MAURA · Ballarat Synthetic R6 · the official GALLOP race profile
The run, measured against
faster than 75% of the field it beat
faster than 32% of everything clocked at this trip and going
faster than 63% of Will Gordon's rides
faster than 77% of Taige Weir's runners
faster than 54% of everything clocked at the track
started 1 of 8 in the market at $2.5
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 2026-08-11Partial horse withheld — the evidence didn't support it
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