Who was the Fastest Horse of the Year?

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00:00Well, every week we bring you the fastest horse of the week.

00:03Now it's time for fastest horse of the year.

00:06Also brought to you by the Fast Sires at Windstar Farm, which is appropriate, because the fastest

00:10horse of the year is also a new Windstar Sire, and that would be Cogburn.

00:16Yes, he was beaten in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, one of the worst rides of Irad Ortiz's

00:22life, but he got a 114 buyer speed figure in Saratoga in the JIPER on June the 8th.

00:28To top the list of all of the top buyers of 2024, here you see the top nine.

00:34The ill-fated Ovacharged, another turf sprinter, was second at 113, and you look at him on

00:40down the line, Sierra Leone, the winner of the Breeders' Cup Classic, got a 112.

00:44What's interesting, only one horse had more than, well, actually Arthur's Ride did have

00:49two at more than 110.

00:52Fierceness had three, including in defeat, but he had three buyer speed figures of 110

00:58or higher, and that's why some people, like Andy Byer, for example, believe that Fierceness

01:01should be the three-year-old champion and not Sierra Leone, and that Fierceness maybe

01:05even should be horse of the year and not Torpedo Anna.

01:08So about Cogburn, more about Cogburn now.

01:11His next chapter at Windstar, the four-time graded six winner will stand for a fee of

01:15$30,000 in 2025, one of six grade one winners for his sire not this time, and he'll be the

01:21first son of not this time to stand at Windstar.

01:24The farm will also welcome two other new recruits for the 2025 breeding season.

01:28Timberlake, the winner of the Champagne, the only grade one winning two-year-old other

01:32than Practical Joke to stand in Kentucky, he'll be standing for $20,000, while Heartland,

01:38a son of Justify who earned a 90 buyer speed figure in his career debut, will stand at

01:43Windstar for a fee of $10,000.