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Racing · The DiagnosisPublished · 2026-08-07
Too Darn Finesse silks
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TOO DARN FINESSE's win at Coffs Harbour was faster than 82% of everything run at the trip, and 84% of the track

TOO DARN FINESSE won race 6 at Coffs Harbour, faster than 92% of the field it beat and 84% of everything clocked at the track. What the run was actually worth.
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TOO DARN FINESSE won race 6 at Coffs Harbour on Soft 6 over 1200m, averaging 16.79 m/s. That is the result. The run is what follows — the same performance measured against every population that gives it meaning.

GALLOP card — TOO DARN FINESSE, the shape of the win at Coffs Harbour
TOO DARN FINESSE · Coffs Harbour R6 · the official GALLOP race profile
The run, measured against
faster than 92% of the field it beat
faster than 82% of everything clocked at this trip and going
faster than 77% of Andrew Gibbons's rides
faster than 74% of Kris Lees's runners
faster than 84% of everything clocked at the track
started 2 of 13 in the market at $3.9
2 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 2026-08-07Partial horse withheld — the evidence didn't support it
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