Who Was the Fastest Horse of Preakness Week?

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00:00The Fastest Horse of the Week is brought to you by WinStar, which stands a lot of fast

00:05stallions, if you think about it, including one with a connection to this week's Fastest

00:10Horse.

00:11More on that later.

00:12Fastest Horse of this week, based on buyer speed figures, if you were watching the races

00:17on Saturday at Pimlico, no doubt who that would be.

00:22Straight No Chaser, who scored a dynamic seven and a half length win in the Maryland Sprint

00:29at Six Furlongs, Straight No Chaser, get this, went Six Furlongs in 108.27 to earn

00:38a buyer speed figure of 107.

00:41That's a career high, not just the highest of the week, and it also happened to be a

00:45stakes record in the Maryland Sprint by almost a full half second.

00:50The previous stakes record, 108.74, was set by New York Central back in 2019.

00:57Straight No Chaser, owned by MyRaceHorse, trained by Dan Blacker, that's two big wins

01:02in a row for Straight No Chaser.

01:04He previously won an allowance race at Oaklawn Park by a similar margin in his most recent

01:11start.

01:12Now, what does Straight No Chaser have to do with the WinStar Fast Sire this week?

01:18Well, Straight No Chaser is the son of Spytster, who is by Spytstown.

01:23Another fast running stud at WinStar is Nashville, another fast son of Spytstown.

01:28Nashville, for example, set a new track record at Keeneland, 107.89, faster by nearly a second

01:35than the Breeders' Cup Sprint later that afternoon, and you talk about speed.

01:39He ran 21 and change, opening quarter miles in six of his eight starts and sub-44 half

01:47miles on three different occasions.

01:49So if speed is key, look no further than Nashville, who stands at WinStar for a fee

01:55of only $15,000.