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Racing · The DiagnosisPublished · 2026-08-21
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WHO BUT ROO's win at Canberra Acton was faster than 100% of everything run at the trip, and 97% of the track

WHO BUT ROO won race 6 at Canberra Acton, faster than 90% of the field it beat. What the run was actually worth.
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WHO BUT ROO won race 6 at Canberra Acton on Synthetic over 1206m, averaging 17.2 m/s. That is the result. The run is what follows — the same performance measured against every population that gives it meaning.

GALLOP card — WHO BUT ROO, the shape of the win at Canberra Acton
WHO BUT ROO · Canberra Acton R6 · the official GALLOP race profile
The run, measured against
faster than 90% of the field it beat
faster than 100% of everything clocked at this trip and going
faster than 93% of Deon Le Roux's rides
faster than 96% of Becky Byrne's runners
faster than 97% of everything clocked at the track
started 4 of 10 in the market at $7.5
0 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 2026-08-21Partial horse withheld — the evidence didn't support it
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