Who's the Fastest Horse of the Week for April 20, 2023?

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00:00Our Fastest Source of the Week segment is brought to you by the fast stallions at Windstar Farm,

00:06including the stallion with breathtaking speed currently in his first year at stud.

00:12First, the honor of Fastest Source of the Week goes to Skelly, the four-year-old practical Joe Gelding,

00:17who won Oaklawn's Count Fleet Sprint Handicap with a buyer's speed figure of 105.

00:23In his stakes debut, Skelly defeated promising Godolphin sprinter Strobe and 9-5 favorite Tahano Twist.

00:31It was also the first graded stakes winner for owners Chris and Emily Hicks of tiny Mason, Texas.

00:38In fact, Skelly is their only currently active racehorse.

00:41Chris is in the oil and gas business in West Texas.

00:44They have been racing horses for less than a decade under the name Red Lane Thoroughbreds.

00:49Skelly is trained by Steve Asmussen, was ridden by Ricardo Santana, and is bred in Kentucky by Alan Poindexter.

00:56Meanwhile, Windstar is the home of the ultra-fast and versatile Life is Good, who dazzled us with his speed in 2022.

01:06He was never beaten to the early lead in his 12 lifetime starts, but more importantly, he carried that speed.

01:12His four grade one victories were all around two turns, one in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile,

01:18and the other three at a mile and an eighth in the Whitney, the Woodward, and the Pegasus World Cup.

01:24And he checks the pedigree box as well as a son of Into Mischief.

01:28Life is Good's 112 buyer's speed figure in the Jan Deirut at Belmont still ranks as the highest by any son or daughter of Into Mischief,

01:37topping authentic Golden Simps and Gamine.

01:40Bob Baffert raved about him, Todd Plexer raved about him, and you can breathe to the fast stallion Life is Good at Windstar Farm.