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Racing · The DiagnosisPublished · 2026-08-23
Zayyano silks
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ZAYYANO's win at Kilcoy was faster than 73% of everything run at the trip, and 70% of the track

ZAYYANO won race 1 at Kilcoy. What the run was actually worth.
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ZAYYANO won race 1 at Kilcoy on Soft 5 over 1500m, averaging 16.64 m/s. That is the result. The run is what follows — the same performance measured against every population that gives it meaning.

GALLOP card — ZAYYANO, the shape of the win at Kilcoy
ZAYYANO · Kilcoy R1 · the official GALLOP race profile
The run, measured against
faster than 70% of its own clocked runs
faster than 73% of everything clocked at this trip and going
faster than 54% of William Galloway's rides
faster than 72% of Allan Chau's runners
faster than 70% of everything clocked at the track
started 1 of 7 in the market at $2.1
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 2026-08-23Partial field withheld — the evidence didn't support it
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