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00:00And now the Fastest Horse of the Week brought to you by the Fast Sires at Windstar Farm.
00:06Think back to 2018, we all remember Justify sweeping the Triple Crown, retiring, being
00:11retired after the Belmont Stakes.
00:13That September, a new two-year-old moved into Bafford Stable at Santa Anita and took the
00:19stall previously occupied by Justify.
00:23Like Justify, this was a chestnut.
00:25Like Justify, common ownership, right?
00:27A lot of the same owners involved in the two horses, and Bob Bafford explained that the
00:31horse was named Improbable because it was very improbable that he would be as good as
00:37Justify was.
00:39Well, what did Improbable do?
00:41What a grade one stakes as a two-year-old, as a four-year-old, the Eclipse Award-winning
00:45champion older males are reeling off three straight grade one wins and then finishing
00:50second to stable mate authentic in the Breeders' Cup Classic.
00:53Now Improbable, standing stud at Windstar.
00:56His first yearling sold for up to $150,000 at Fasig-Tipton in July, and he has four more
01:02entered in the prestigious Saratoga Selectsdale.
01:05Two fillies, hips 14 and 98, and two colts, hips 91 and 235.
01:12He's from the immediate female family of hard spun, and Improbable bred 329 mares in his
01:20first two books.
01:22Now the fastest horse of the week will surprise no one, Echo Zulu, winning the Honorable
01:26Miss Stakes in Six Furlongs 108.99, buyer speed figure of 112, Honorable Mention to
01:34New York Thunders 110 in the Amsterdam and Elite Powers 108 buyer in the Vanderbilt on
01:41Saturday.
01:43But right now, talking about Echo Zulu, Steve Asmussen and Connections have pointed out
01:48that they would not be reticent at all if the situation called for it to run Echo Zulu
01:54against the colts.
01:55They think she'd be more brilliant, tougher to catch at six furlongs than at seven furlongs.
02:01The only problem is they also have Gunite pointing, ultimately, for the six furlong
02:05Breeders' Cup Sprint, so it's a nice problem to have.
02:08But Echo Zulu, perhaps the best race of her career, that's saying a lot, a 112 buyer
02:14speed figure, the fastest horse of the week.
02:18ECHO ZULU