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Speed figures: These are last week’s fastest stakes winners

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Speed figures: These are last week’s fastest stakes winners




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Closethegame Sugar earned the highest Brisnet Speed Rating among last weekend’s stakes winners for his upset victory in the Aristides at Churchill Downs on Saturday.

The 4-year-old Girvin colt, who is trained and co-owned by Adam Rice, went off at 18-1 and caught odds-on favorite Skelly late to win by a length. Ridden by Irad Ortiz Jr., he covered the six furlongs in 1:08.39. He also got a 99 Beyer Speed Figure.

It was only the second dirt start for Closethegame Sugar, who was second on the Churchill dirt in a May 2 optional-claiming allowance after a 7 1/2-month layoff.

The highest Beyer of the weekend went to Happy Jack, who earned a 105 for his win in the Triple Bend (G2) at Santa Anita. The 5-year-old son of Oxbow trained by Doug O’Neill led the four-horse field gate to wire and won by 4 1/2 lengths under jockey Edwin Maldonado.

It was the first stakes win for Happy Jack, who returned from a 10-month layoff to finish second in the Kona Gold on April 27.

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  Jockey Brisnet Beyer
Closethegame Sugar Aristides, 6 furlongs Irad Ortiz   104   99
Happy Jack Triple Bend (G2), 7 furlongs Edwin Maldonado   102 105
Ottoman Fleet Arlington (G3), 1 1/16 miles (turf) Flavien Prat   102   99
Dust Em Wayne Hanks Memorial, 6 1/2 furlongs David Cabrera   101   88
Highland Falls Blame (G3), 1 1/8 miles Florent Geroux   101   98
Mr Fisk Hollywood Gold Cup (G2), 1 1/8 miles Kazushi Kimura   100 101
Dean Delivers Mr. Prospector, 6 furlongs Miguel Vasquez     99   97
Minnesota Ready Speightstown Sprint, 6 furlongs Cristian Torres     99 100
Scylla Shawnee (G3), 1 1/16 miles Javier Castellano     99   93
Spirit Wind Memorial Day Sprint, 6 furlongs Mike Smith     99   99
Johannes Shoemaker Mile (G1), 1 mile (turf) Umberto Rispoli     97 101
Miuccia Game Face, 6 furlongs Miguel Vasquez     96   90
Anisette Gamely (G1), 1 1/8 miles (turf) Umberto Rispoli     95   91
E J Won the Cup Texas Derby, 1 1/16 miles Mike Smith     95   93
Chismosa Desert Stormer, 6 furlongs Tiago Pereira     94   92
Delahaye Mint Julep (G3), 1 1/16 miles (turf) Tyler Gaffalione     94   92
Fashionably Fab Belle Mahone (G3), 1 1/16 (synthetic) Pietro Moran     94   92
Get Set Fabulous Strike, 6 furlongs Jaime Rodriguez     94   88
Heroic Move Steve Sexton Mile (G3), 1 mile Harry Hernandez     94   93
Jak N Burny George W. Barker, 6 furlongs Joel Cruz     94   87

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