Racing · The DiagnosisPublished · 2026-08-07
The Diagnosis
OLD FAITHFUL won at Ipswich on one of its slower days — 20% of its own runs
OLD FAITHFUL won race 4 at Ipswich, faster than 92% of the field it beat and 22% of everything clocked at the track. What the run was actually worth.
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OLD FAITHFUL won race 4 at Ipswich on Soft 5 over 2150m, averaging 16.05 m/s. That is the result. The run is what follows — the same performance measured against every population that gives it meaning.
| The run, measured against |
|---|
| faster than 20% of its own clocked runs |
| faster than 92% of the field it beat |
| faster than 73% of everything clocked at this trip and going |
| faster than 8% of Jag Guthmann-Chester's rides |
| faster than 12% of Stuart Kendrick's runners |
| faster than 22% of everything clocked at the track |
| started 1 of 13 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 2026-08-07
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