Constitution is the WinStar Fast Sire of the Week. But Who's the Fastest Horse?

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00:00Well, the fastest horse of the week happens to be a California bred, but first of all,

00:06let's talk about the stallions, the fast sires at Windstar Farm, which helps bring you the

00:12TD and RiderZoom every week and this particular segment, one of the sires at Windstar Farm

00:17that's really hot right now, Constitution.

00:20We knew his two-year-olds were good last year, and they're carrying that over to their three-year-old

00:24season as well, such as Catching Freedom, the winner of the Smarty Jones stakes at Oakland

00:28on New Year's Day for trainer Brad Cox, he was a $575,000 Keeneland purchase, he now

00:34has 10 points on the road to the Kentucky Derby, and it was quite a stylish win if you

00:38haven't seen it, but also born noble at Gulfstream Park, a TD and rising star who won his debut

00:46for trainer Todd Pletcher by five and a half lengths, 93 buyer speed figure, the Sprite

00:50Racing green as grass through the lane, he is also a son of Constitution who of course

00:56stands again at Windstar Farm.

00:58Now, the fastest horse of the week, Saturday, Santa Anita Allowance Race, six and a half

01:04furlongs, Big City Lights wins impressively with a buyer speed figure, the weak eye of

01:1199, owned by William Peoples, trained by Richard Mandela, and Mandela admitted that the key

01:16to getting Big City Lights into the winner's circle was to find a race where the chosen

01:21run wasn't entered.

01:24Big City Lights had come off four consecutive second place finishes to fellow Calbret, the

01:30chosen run and Calbret Steaks Company, and now his next scheduled start, they penciled

01:35in the Palos Verdes Steaks for Big City Lights, hoping of course that the chosen run will

01:41stay against California Bread Company.