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Sierra Leone, winner of the $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic on Saturday, earned a 114 Brisnet Speed Rating for his effort, the highest any horse received over a weekend of championship racing.

His 1 1/2-length victory over Fierceness was his first win since the Blue Grass (G1) at Keeneland in April. However, Sierra Leone has been one of the most consistent horses of a deep 3-year-old class. He has never missed the board in nine starts, and his season features a second-place finish in the Kentucky Derby and third-place efforts in both the Belmont Stakes and the Travers Stakes. Sierra Leone also earned the higest Beyer of the week, a 112.

The next highest Brisnet figure, a 109, and the next highest Beyer, a 106, went to Rebel’s Romance for his triumph in the Breeders’ Cup Turf. The Charlie Appleby trainee, a 6-year-old Dubawi gelding, tracked the pace and held by a neck in the end over fast-finishing Rousham Park. Rebeel’s Romance has won the Breeders’ Cup Turf in two of the last three years.

For more on speed figures, see Horse Racing Nation’s database of the top speed figures of the year, where you can sort runners by age, sex, surface and distance.

Here are the figures for last week’s highest-rated stakes winners, ranked by Brisnet Speed Ratings, with Beyer Speed Figures from Daily Racing Form.

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