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Racing · The DiagnosisPublished · 2026-07-30
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HEURISTIC's win at Illawarra Grange was faster than 69% of everything run at the trip, and 96% of the track

HEURISTIC won race 7 at Illawarra Grange, faster than 92% of the field it beat and 96% of everything clocked at the track. What the run was actually worth.
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HEURISTIC won race 7 at Illawarra Grange on Good 4 over 1200m, averaging 16.89 m/s. That is the result. The run is what follows — the same performance measured against every population that gives it meaning.

GALLOP card — HEURISTIC, the shape of the win at Illawarra Grange
HEURISTIC · Illawarra Grange R7 · the official GALLOP race profile
The run, measured against
faster than 38% of its own clocked runs
faster than 92% of the field it beat
faster than 69% of everything clocked at this trip and going
faster than 80% of Ms Siena Grima's rides
faster than 78% of Mitchell Beer & George Carpenter's runners
faster than 96% of everything clocked at the track
started 1 of 13 in the market at $2.9
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 2026-07-30
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