Racing · The DiagnosisPublished · 2026-08-15
The Diagnosis
TAKA SPEED's win at Caulfield was faster than 95% of everything run at the trip, and 24% of the track
TAKA SPEED won race 2 at Caulfield, faster than 93% of the field it beat. What the run was actually worth.
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TAKA SPEED won race 2 at Caulfield on Soft 7 over 2000m, averaging 16.13 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 40% of its own clocked runs |
| faster than 93% of the field it beat |
| faster than 95% of everything clocked at this trip and going |
| faster than 34% of Daniel Stackhouse's rides |
| faster than 26% of Matt Laurie's runners |
| faster than 24% of everything clocked at the track |
| started 5 of 15 in the market at $14.0 |
| 0 of 4 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 2026-08-15
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