El Cordobes Fastest Horse in US Debut

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The Charlie Appleby-trained El Cordobes made a splash in his US debut in the GI Sword Dancer, earning a 104 Beyer and becoming the Fastest Horse of the Week. The Fastest Horse is sponsored by the stallions at WinStar Farm like Life Is Good, who saw a $1.025 million yearling sell at Fasig-Tipton Saratoga.

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00:00And now for the Fastest Horse of the Week, brought to you this week by Life is Good, one of those fast sires at Windstar Farm.

00:07Life is Good is into mischief's fastest son to date as a racehorse.

00:13Life is Good ran nine triple-digit buyer speed figures, including a 112.

00:18As a stallion now, with his first crop of yearlings now hitting the auction rings,

00:22Life is Good, if you recall, had that pair of $550,000 yearlings at Saratoga we told you about last week.

00:29And shortly after we taped that podcast, Life is Good had a yearling filly.

00:34A half-sister to Preakness winner seized the gray that sold at Saratoga Tuesday night for $1,025,000 to Mike Rapoli.

00:44Life is Good, of course, was raced by Windstar and now stands at Windstar Farm.

00:49Now the Fastest Horse of the Week comes out of the Sword Dancer on Saturday at Saratoga, a mile and a half.

00:57We'll be talking about that race a little later in the podcast.

00:59The winner was El Cordovas, making his first start in the United States, owned by Goodolphin, trained by Charlie Appleby.

01:06Appleby said El Cordovas handled the travel, he handled the firm turf, he handled the tempo of the race, he handled the sharp returns.

01:14And as a result, El Cordovas' last surge earned a buyer speed figure of 1.04,

01:20which ranks pretty favorably with the top buyers of the year so far in the long-distance turf category.

01:26And it makes El Cordovas our Fastest Horse of the Week.

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