Who was the Fastest Horse of Belmont Weekend?

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00:00The Fastest Horse of the Week is brought to you by Global Campaign, one of those fast

00:05sires at Windstar Farm who just hit his first winner on Saturday.

00:09The two-year-old global legend, just like his sire, won convincingly at first asking

00:16in a maiden special weight race at Gulfstream Park.

00:20Global Campaign, a son of Curlin, won the grade one Woodward stakes as a four-year-old

00:24with a buyer speed figure of 104, then was third in the Breeders' Cup Classic behind

00:28Authentic and Improbable.

00:29Global Campaign won six times in ten starts for Windstar Farm and Sagamore Farm, and now

00:34he stands at Windstar for $12,500.

00:39This week, we have co-Fastest Horses of the Week, who ran the second fastest buyer speed

00:44figures of 2024.

00:47On Friday, it was Arthur's Ride, a four-year-old son of Tappet, who stormed to a front-running

00:5212 and three-quarters length wire-to-wire win at Saratoga, going a mile and a quarter

00:57in a second-level allowance.

00:58He is owned by Carla and Kathy Glassman of St. Paul, Minnesota, trained by Bill Mott.

01:03And Saturday, Cogburn and the Jiper stakes at five-and-a-half furlongs on the turf, romped

01:08by three-and-a-half lengths.

01:10He's now won five times on turf in six starts since trainer Steve Asmussen switched him

01:15over from the dirt.

01:17He is a five-year-old son of NotThisTimeCo, owned by Clark Brewster and Bill and Corrine

01:21Heiligbro.

01:22Both those horses, Arthur's Ride and Cogburn, ran buyer speed figures of 1.11, second this

01:29year only to that 1.13 run by the turf sprinting Philly Sensation, overcharged.