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Racing · The DiagnosisPublished · 2026-08-22
Captain Barbossa silks
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CAPTAIN BARBOSSA's win at Berrigan was faster than 75% of everything run at the trip, and 22% of the track

CAPTAIN BARBOSSA won race 5 at Berrigan. What the run was actually worth.
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CAPTAIN BARBOSSA won race 5 at Berrigan on Soft 7 over 1600m, averaging 16.27 m/s. That is the result. The run is what follows — the same performance measured against every population that gives it meaning.

GALLOP card — CAPTAIN BARBOSSA, the shape of the win at Berrigan
CAPTAIN BARBOSSA · Berrigan R5 · the official GALLOP race profile
The run, measured against
faster than 69% of its own clocked runs
faster than 75% of everything clocked at this trip and going
faster than 37% of Brodie Loy's rides
faster than 48% of John & Chris Ledger's runners
faster than 22% of everything clocked at the track
started 2 of 7 in the market at $3.2

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 2026-08-22Partial field withheld — the evidence didn't support it
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