Big City Lights Earns Fastest Horse Honors

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00:00Now, for the fastest horse of the week, this week brought to you by Independence Hall.

00:06One of those fast sires at Windstar Farm, Independence Hall happens to be the only undefeated

00:12two-year-old standing at stud by Constitution.

00:16So he was precocious, and now he has his first two-year-olds on the track this year.

00:20Four of those two-year-olds will be running for hot trainer Ken McPeak, who bought them

00:25as yearlings in 2024.

00:29Some of Independence Hall's yearlings, three of them, sold for $350,000, $310,000, $285,000,

00:38all of that for just a stud fee at Windstar of $7,500 for Independence Hall.

00:45Now the fastest horse of the week this week ran in the Cal Cup Sprint on Saturday at Santa

00:50Anita, Big City Lights, who recorded a winning buyer's speed figure of 104, finally out of

00:58the shadow of that famous California sprinter, the Chosen Vron.

01:03Big City Lights was the horse, if you recall, who was second to the Chosen Vron in four

01:08consecutive California breadstakes races in 2022 and 2023.

01:14Now without the Chosen Vron in the California Cup Sprint, he was a one to 10 favorite and

01:21recorded his second big margin victory in a row, winning Saturday by seven and three-quarters

01:27lengths.

01:28The horse of the week, the Cal brand, Big City Lights.