Echo Zulu: The Fastest Horse of the Week

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00:00The TD and Writers Room is brought to you by the Fast Sires at Windstar Farm, the sponsor

00:07every week of the Fastest Horse of the Week.

00:10This week, we're focusing on the stallion Improbable, a grade one winner as a two-year-old.

00:16He flips champion to older male with three consecutive grade one wins.

00:20The awesome again, the Whitney, the Hollywood Gold Cup, and of course he was then second

00:24in the Breeders' Cup Classic.

00:27Improbable's first yearlings are on the market now.

00:29It's sold for up to $425,000, with eight sold so far.

00:36He is sporting an impressive average sale price of $217,500.

00:42You can look for those Improbable yearlings at the Keeneland September sale.

00:49Fastest Horse of the Week.

00:50You saw her Saturday, ballerina handicap, Echo Zulu, okay?

00:56Chad Brown trained Goodnight Olive impeccably for the ballerina handicap to have a career

01:07best performance.

01:09She ran a 108 buyer speed figure and Echo Zulu just kicked away from her through the

01:14lane like it was nothing for a back-to-back 112 buyer speed figure.

01:21Now, how impressive are back-to-back 112 buyer speed figures?

01:25If you look at the history of buyer speed figures, okay, published in the Daily Racing

01:30Forum.

01:31Here I go, Zoe.

01:32I'm going down a rabbit hole.

01:33Female sprinters.

01:34There have only been two of them that had back-to-back speed figures as high as Echo

01:41Zulu.

01:42Educated Risk was one of them, trained by Suge McGehee.

01:45The other one, I know you probably know who it is, Extra Heat, did it five times in one

01:52year in 2001.

01:55Extra Heat ran 113, 113, 117, 118, 120.

02:00That's the kind of rarefied air that Echo Zulu reached on Saturday with her back-to-back

02:06112 buyer speed figures this time in the ballerina handicap.

02:10Echo Zulu, this week's Fastest Horse of the Week.