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Racing · The DiagnosisPublished · 2026-08-15
Smashing Rosie silks
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SMASHING ROSIE won at Longreach on one of its slower days — 27% of its own runs, and 49% of the track

SMASHING ROSIE won race 5 at Longreach. What the run was actually worth.
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SMASHING ROSIE won race 5 at Longreach on Good over 1400m, averaging 16.98 m/s. That is the result. The run is what follows — the same performance measured against every population that gives it meaning.

GALLOP card — SMASHING ROSIE, the shape of the win at Longreach
SMASHING ROSIE · Longreach R5 · the official GALLOP race profile
The run, measured against
faster than 27% of its own clocked runs
faster than 88% of everything clocked at this trip and going
faster than 81% of Caine Stuart's rides
faster than 42% of Toni Schofield's runners
faster than 49% of everything clocked at the track
started 1 of 7 in the market at $2.6

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 2026-08-15Partial field withheld — the evidence didn't support it
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