Who's The Fastest Horse for the week of Feb 26, 2025?

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00:00The Fastest Horse of the Week comes to you this week courtesy of Timberlake, one of the

00:04fast sires at Windstar Farm and it's fitting because we'll be discussing last Sunday's

00:09Rebel stakes at Oaklawn Park shortly and Timberlake, co-owned by Windstar, won the 2024 edition

00:16of the Rebel.

00:17That was Timberlake's first start as a three-year-old following a two-year-old campaign.

00:21It saw him beat Fierceness in the Champagne with a 93-buyer speed figure and before that

00:25break his maiden by nine-and-a-quarter lengths over two future-graded stakes winners to

00:30become a TDN Rising Star.

00:33Timberlake and Practical Joke are the only sons of Intimiscip presently standing at stud

00:37that were grade-one winners as two-year-olds and the TDN's Chris McGrath named Timberlake

00:42a Silver Value Sire this year.

00:46And here's the value, Timberlake's first-year stud fee at Windstar is just $20,000 and limited

00:52seasons remain.

00:54Now we can play a guessing game here.

00:55The fastest horse of the week isn't Razorback winner Alexander Helios, it's not Bob Baffert-trained

01:00sensational debut winner Cornucopian who got a 101, or the up-and-coming sprinter Montalcino.

01:06The designation this week goes to Emirates Road, who Saturday over a deep track at Aqueduct

01:12won a first-level allowance with a buyer speed figure of 105.

01:16As you can tell by his name, Emirates Road bred and previously owned by Godolphin, he's

01:22by quality road, his third dam was Breeders' Cup Sprint winner Desert Stormer, but he wasn't

01:26a good racehorse for Godolphin.

01:28They abandoned him, basically, they gelled him, sold him privately, those owners got

01:33rid of him too.

01:34He wound up being claimed for $30,000 last June by Sandy Goldfarb and partners turned

01:39over to Brad Cox, and now the six-year-old Emirates Road has three wins and two seconds

01:44in his last five starts, and somewhat surprisingly, is our fastest horse of the week.