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Racing · The DiagnosisPublished · 2026-08-31
Exorbitant Miss silks
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EXORBITANT MISS won at Taree on one of its slower days — 22% of its own runs, and 25% of the track

EXORBITANT MISS won race 5 at Taree, faster than 90% of the field it beat. What the run was actually worth.
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EXORBITANT MISS won race 5 at Taree on Soft 6 over 2000m, averaging 15.83 m/s. That is the result. The run is what follows — the same performance measured against every population that gives it meaning.

GALLOP card — EXORBITANT MISS, the shape of the win at Taree
EXORBITANT MISS · Taree R5 · the official GALLOP race profile
The run, measured against
faster than 22% of its own clocked runs
faster than 90% of the field it beat
faster than 74% of everything clocked at this trip and going
faster than 6% of Rory Hutchings's rides
faster than 17% of Jeremy Gask's runners
faster than 25% of everything clocked at the track
started 1 of 10 in the market at $2.25
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 2026-08-31
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