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Racing · The DiagnosisPublished · 2026-08-28
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RANAKYE's win at Geelong was faster than 67% of everything run at the trip, and 60% of the track

RANAKYE won race 5 at Geelong, faster than 89% of the field it beat. What the run was actually worth.
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RANAKYE won race 5 at Geelong on Soft 6 over 1247m, averaging 16.5 m/s. That is the result. The run is what follows — the same performance measured against every population that gives it meaning.

GALLOP card — RANAKYE, the shape of the win at Geelong
RANAKYE · Geelong R5 · the official GALLOP race profile
The run, measured against
faster than 44% of its own clocked runs
faster than 89% of the field it beat
faster than 67% of everything clocked at this trip and going
faster than 64% of Beau Mertens's rides
faster than 71% of Julius Sandhu's runners
faster than 60% of everything clocked at the track
started 3 of 9 in the market at $5.0
1 of 2 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 2026-08-28
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