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Racing · The DiagnosisPublished · 2026-08-24
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PURE GRUNT won at Cranbourne — faster than 33% of everything clocked there, and 71% of its own runs

PURE GRUNT won race 4 at Cranbourne. What the run was actually worth.
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PURE GRUNT won race 4 at Cranbourne over 800m, averaging 16.22 m/s. That is the result. The run is what follows — the same performance measured against every population that gives it meaning.

GALLOP card — PURE GRUNT, the shape of the win at Cranbourne
PURE GRUNT · Cranbourne R4 · the official GALLOP race profile
The run, measured against
faster than 71% of its own clocked runs
faster than 59% of Ms Liana Wood's rides
faster than 54% of Ken & Kasey Keys's runners
faster than 33% of everything clocked at the track

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 2026-08-24Partial field, trip withheld — the evidence didn't support it
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