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Racing · The DiagnosisPublished · 2026-08-11
Coccinella silks
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COCCINELLA won at Ballina on one of its slower days — 0% of its own runs

COCCINELLA won race 4 at Ballina, faster than 88% of the field it beat and 13% of everything clocked at the track. What the run was actually worth.
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COCCINELLA won race 4 at Ballina on Heavy 10 over 1900m, averaging 14.99 m/s. That is the result. The run is what follows — the same performance measured against every population that gives it meaning.

GALLOP card — COCCINELLA, the shape of the win at Ballina
COCCINELLA · Ballina R4 · the official GALLOP race profile
The run, measured against
faster than 0% of its own clocked runs
faster than 88% of the field it beat
faster than 2% of Nick Heywood's rides
faster than 1% of Allan Chau's runners
faster than 13% of everything clocked at the track
started 1 of 8 in the market at $2.3
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 trip withheld — the evidence didn't support it
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