Fastest Horse of the Week Was..An Allowance Winner?

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00:00Meanwhile, the Fastest Horse of the Week segment brought to you again by one of the Fast Sires

00:05at Windstar Farm.

00:06The only stallion at Windstar, actually the only stallion in the world, who is a son of

00:11the Red Hot Constitution and as a racehorse, was precocious enough to be undefeated as

00:15a two-year-old.

00:16That would be Independence Hall as a two-year-old.

00:20He won both his starts, including the grade three national mistakes, by a combined 17

00:24and a half lengths.

00:25Then he added a win on New Year's Day in the Jerome in Aqueduct.

00:27He got a 101 byer in the Nashua, the highest that year for any two-year-old, and he came

00:33back as a four-year-old to run a 105 byer, winning the grade two Fayette at Keeneland.

00:38Independence Hall has its first yearlings this year, and he stands at Windstar for $10,000.

00:44Fastest Horse of the Week came courtesy of a Thursday allowance race, a sprint at Aqueduct,

00:50and that would be Joey Freshwater, four-year-old son of Jimmy Creed, trained by Linda Rice,

00:55who was eligible for the non-winners of three other than condition, scored by three and

00:59three quarters lengths under Jose Lascano, six-foot-longs, 109.57 seconds.

01:05Joey Freshwater, a sometimes anxious and quirky colt, best known for winning the grade three

01:11Bayshore stakes almost exactly a year ago at Aqueduct.

01:16That was four races after he was claimed for $50,000 as a two-year-old by Winning Move

01:20Stables.

01:21Steve Sigler, Joey Freshwater, clicking on all cylinders last week, career-high byer

01:25speed figure of 105.

01:28One more thing briefly.

01:30Last week, I mentioned my trivia question.

01:32We were talking about fierceness in his 110 byer speed figure in the Florida Derby, and

01:36remember, I asked when the last time any horse in the field of the Kentucky Derby had run

01:42a career-high byer speed figure as high as 110.

01:46I said, we have the answer at the end of the show.

01:48I forgot.

01:49So I've given you a whole week to think about it.

01:51The correct answer would be another horse trained by Todd Fletcher, ridden by John Velazquez

01:57in the Florida Derby, and that would be Materiality, who won the 2015 Florida Derby with a 110

02:04byer speed figure, then got in trouble at the start in American Pharaohs Kentucky Derby

02:08and ran sixth.