Which Fast Filly Earned 'Fastest Horse of the Week' Honors?

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00:00Time now for the Fastest Horse of the Week, brought to you this week by Nashville, one

00:06of the fast sires at Windstar Farm.

00:08Why Nashville this week?

00:10Well, last week, mega-owner Jon Stewart held a live stream to announce the mating plans

00:16for his mares, and he revealed that two of those mares would be going to Nashville.

00:22Why not?

00:23Nashville's a Keeneland track record setter.

00:25He ran six furlongs in 107.89, and he was booked full in his first two years at stud

00:31with 368 mares bred.

00:35To Windstar, they like to say, he's so fast, he's Nashville hot, like chicken.

00:40Get it?

00:41Now, the Fastest Horse of the Week, Copion in the Santa Monica.

00:46Copion, of course, was coming off a win in the La Brea against an all-star field.

00:51She was 37-1 that day in the La Brea, and ran a buyer's speed figure of 97.

00:57Well, this past Saturday in the Santa Monica, Bob Baffert attacked her with three different

01:02entrants and one of his, Hope Road, ran a heck of a race on the lead, and what did Copion

01:07do?

01:08Stalked Hope Road and left her behind to a clear victory.

01:13Get ready for this.

01:14Buyer's speed figure of 110.

01:18Amazingly fast race for Copion in the Santa Monica, and she is our Fastest Horse of the

01:23Week.