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Racing · The DiagnosisPublished · 2026-08-03
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SOUL MISTRESS won at Pakenham Synthetic on one of its slower days — 22% of its own runs

SOUL MISTRESS won race 1 at Pakenham Synthetic and 4% of everything clocked at the track. What the run was actually worth.
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SOUL MISTRESS won race 1 at Pakenham Synthetic on Synthetic over 2200m, averaging 15.75 m/s. That is the result. The run is what follows — the same performance measured against every population that gives it meaning.

GALLOP card — SOUL MISTRESS, the shape of the win at Pakenham Synthetic
SOUL MISTRESS · Pakenham Synthetic R1 · the official GALLOP race profile
The run, measured against
faster than 22% of its own clocked runs
faster than 51% of everything clocked at this trip and going
faster than 13% of Jye McNeil's rides
faster than 22% of Ken & Kasey Keys's runners
faster than 4% of everything clocked at the track
started 1 of 5 in the market at $1.4
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 2026-08-03Partial field withheld — the evidence didn't support it
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