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Racing · The DiagnosisPublished · 2026-08-13
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TRACK TALE won at Rockhampton on one of its slower days — 31% of its own runs, and 43% of the track

TRACK TALE won race 4 at Rockhampton. What the run was actually worth.
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TRACK TALE won race 4 at Rockhampton on Good 4 over 1100m, averaging 17.27 m/s. That is the result. The run is what follows — the same performance measured against every population that gives it meaning.

GALLOP card — TRACK TALE, the shape of the win at Rockhampton
TRACK TALE · Rockhampton R4 · the official GALLOP race profile
The run, measured against
faster than 31% of its own clocked runs
faster than 90% of everything clocked at this trip and going
faster than 65% of Ryan Wiggins's rides
faster than 61% of Ricky Vale's runners
faster than 43% of everything clocked at the track
started 2 of 6 in the market at $3.6
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 2026-08-13Partial field withheld — the evidence didn't support it
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