The Fastest Horse of the Week? Be Happy About It!

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00:00And now the fastest horse of the week brought to you by Independence Hall one

00:05of those fast sires at Windstar Farm. His first yearlings are selling at

00:10Caneland September as we speak and as they like to say over at the farm those

00:15yearlings are ringing the bell. For example, Pin Oak Stud picked up a colt by

00:19Independence Hall that was hip 2064 Monday the price $350,000. Kenny McPeak

00:27bought hip 1299 another colt $310,000. Here's a colt hip number 1866. He

00:36brought $285,000 and hip 1652 fetched $200,000. A lot of interest in those

00:45Independence Halls and you've got a few more days to find yours at Caneland

00:49September. Now the fastest horse of the week that took place on Saturday at

00:54Churchill Downs on the undercard of the Iroquois and the Pocahontas which we'll

00:59talk about later and that was in a race called the Louisville Thoroughbred

01:03Society. A six furlong ungraded sprint $300,000 won by Happy is a Choice with a

01:10career-high 103 buyer speed figure. He ran the six furlongs in 108.97 and ran

01:16down one of the most recently unlucky horses in the country the remarkably

01:21consistent sprinter Skelly who looked like he had that race home free but

01:25Happy is a Choice co-owned by Hooties Racing WSS Racing of Bill Simon and 4G

01:31Racing trained by the hot John Ortiz ran down Skelly to be the fastest horse of

01:36the week at a 103 buyer.