Opening Day of Keeneland Sees Fastest Horse of the Week

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00:00This week's Fastest Horse of the Week is brought to you by, drumroll please, Nashville, one

00:06of those fast sires at Windstar Farm, whose first in full mares last year sold for up

00:13to $850,000.

00:17That's in full mares, and now his first weanlings are coming to market.

00:21You can find three of them at Fasig-Tipton's upcoming Night of the Stars and another 35

00:27at the Keeneland November sale.

00:29Now as a racehorse, of course, Nashville was super fast, track record 107.89 for six

00:34furlongs at Keeneland, running nearly a full second faster, as we've mentioned, than the

00:39Breeders' Cup Sprint later on that same day.

00:42So Nashville, one of those fast sires at Windstar.

00:45Fastest Horse of the Week also took place at Keeneland.

00:49That would have been on Friday's opening day.

00:51Federal Judge, co-owned by Windstar and Sienna Farm, trained by Brad Cox, won the Phoenix

00:57Stakes, the oldest stakes race in America, by a widening margin of five and a half links.

01:04Six furlongs, 108.20, the fastest raw running time of the Phoenix in 24 years, and the buyer

01:11speed figure the federal judge earned for that race, 106.

01:15He stamps himself as one of the leading contenders now for the Breeders' Cup Sprint.

01:19The only real question mark is something that Bill just mentioned in the previous segment.

01:23On opening day at Keeneland, most people, I'm one of those, believe that there was

01:28a speed bias, maybe even a speed and rail bias, to a certain extent, certainly a speed

01:34bias, and Federal Judge led from start to finish from post position number one in the

01:38Phoenix under Jockey Flavien Pratt.

01:41Nevertheless, Federal Judge, our Fastest Horse of the Week.