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Locked earned the highest speed figures of the week when he continued his impressive comeback with a win in Saturday’s Grade 2 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct.
With John Velazquez aboard for trainer Todd Pletcher, the 3-year-old Gun Runner colt rallied in the stretch to win by 1 1/2 lengths as the 2-1 favorite. He got a 102 Brisnet Speed Rating and a 111 Beyer Speed Figure for his performance.
Before the Cigar Mile, Locked had been off for nearly a year when he returned in October with a 7 1/2-length win in an optional-claiming allowance race at the Belmont at Aqueduct meet.
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.
Horse | Race | Brisnet | Beyer |
---|---|---|---|
Locked | Cigar Mile (G2) | 102 | 101 |
Donut God | Inaugural | 97 | 82 |
Kale’s Angel | Advent | 97 | 93 |
Redline | Shawn Swartz Overnight | 97 | 96 |
Tenma | Starlet (G2) | 97 | 83 |
Unconquerable Keen | Stormy Liberal | 97 | 95 |
Get Smokin | Valedictory (G3) | 96 | 93 |
Tizzy in the Sky | Go for Wand (G3) | 96 | 89 |
Sacred Wish | Matriarch (G1) | 95 | 96 |
Happy Is a Choice | Ring The Bell | 94 | 99 |
Kant Hurry Love | Garland of Roses | 94 | 82 |
Muhimma | Demoiselle (G2) | 94 | 90 |
Scotland | Cherokee Mile | 94 | 94 |
Lord Eddard Stark | H. Allen Jerkens | 93 | 90 |
Tony Eclipse | Maryland Juvenile | 93 | 82 |
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