Fastest Horse of the Week for March 2, 2023: Presented by WinStar

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00:00The Fastest Horse of the Week is brought to you by the fast stallions at Windstar Farms,

00:05such as the sire that ran ten triple-digit buyer speed figures, nine of them in a row.

00:11We'll talk about that sire a little later.

00:13First, the Fastest Horse of the Week.

00:15Now technically, President's Day, it was February the 20th, it was a Monday, was a part of this

00:20past week.

00:21So our Fastest Horse of the Week is the Chosen Brun, whose six-and-a-half length victory

00:26in the Tisnow Stakes at Santa Anita on Monday earned the week's high buyer speed figure

00:31103.

00:32The Chosen Brun is a five-year-old gelding by the Danzig stallion Bronski, hence his

00:38name, and it's now won five straight stakes races against California Breds for trainer

00:42Eric Kruljak.

00:44But don't dismiss him just because he's been running against State Breds.

00:47He is fast.

00:49Before the Tisnow, he had run seven furlongs and won 20.66.

00:54Six furlongs and won 08.96.

00:57And don't forget, as a three-year-old, he beat Open Company in the Grade 3 Laz Berrera

01:01and the Grade 3 Affirmed, both at Santa Anita.

01:04He's on a roll.

01:05The Chosen Brun, Fastest Horse of the Week.

01:09Now back to that fast sire at Windstar, Toms de Ta, the dominant winner of the Grade 1

01:17Clark Stakes, in which he earned a 105 buyer speed figure, but his best ever buyer, the

01:23109 he earned in the Stephen Foster, where he stopped the clock for a mile and an eighth

01:28at 147.30, two hundredths of a second off the track record set back in 1999.

01:35Those were just two of the 10 triple-digit buyer speed figures from the Grade 1 winning

01:39millionaire by smart strike.

01:41Toms de Ta's first yearling has come to market in 2023, this year.