Fastest workouts

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Wasn't Surf Cat.

Probably happened during the time when the SA track was insanely fast. I remember Bob Black Jack winning some Jan 3yo stake and running 6fs in a world record 1:06 2/5ths.

Thanks to google - I found out that SS worked the mile in 1:33 2/5ths on a Saturday between races at Del Mar. That's amazing. I'd love to know how fast the track was that day.

Midnight Lute also worked 1:21+ at Del Mar in advance of the 2008 Pat O'Brien. Broke the track record.

Give me a minute to figure out which Headley horse it was.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

Midnight Lute also worked 1:21+ at Del Mar in advance of the 2008 Pat O'Brien. Broke the track record.

Give me a minute to figure out which Headley horse it was.

Thanks. Midnight Lute's workout time of 1:21.60 that morning - would have translated to a 101 Beyer if it came in that afternoons races.

It doesn't sound like a crazy fast figure .. but it was on synthetic and last years BC Sprint was won with only a 106.

[goingtothewhip]

Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

Midnight Lute also worked 1:21+ at Del Mar in advance of the 2008 Pat O'Brien. Broke the track record.

Give me a minute to figure out which Headley horse it was.

Street Boss?

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by goingtothewhip

Street Boss?

Not sure, but he's the next logical horse. I was pretty certain it was Surf Cat but maybe it was a slower work, like 1:23 or something. It was definitely when Santa Anita's surface was super fast, but not necessarily during a race meet.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Rachel Alexandra's final workout for the Ky Oaks was smoking fast. A bullet 46.40

Hal Wiggins was standing at the gap by the clockers’ stand early Tuesday morning and trainer D. Wayne Lukas rode up on his pony.

“Hey Hal, your filly got a ‘2’ on the ‘Rag’ sheet yesterday,” Lukas said, referring to the :46.40 half-mile work put in by Wiggins’ Rachel Alexandra on Monday.

“But I didn’t get a dollar for it,” Wiggins said with a laugh. “She’s got to do it in the afternoon.”

"I thought she went too fast, but Calvin swears she does that every time," trainer Hal Wiggins said. "That is what she did at Oaklawn Park before the Fantasy [Stakes (G2)]; she worked in [:47.60], but that's just the way she is. I am glad to have one that can go that fast."

Rachel Alexandra spent the morning out of the intermittent showers and walked the shedrow.

“Everything looks good,” Wiggins said of the daughter of Medaglia d’Oro, who will break from post position six. “She got a little tired and I may walk her again tomorrow.”

Churchill clockers caught Rachel Alexandra in fractions of :11.60, :23.20, :34.80 during the breeze. She galloped out five furlongs in :58.40 and six furlongs in 1:10.60.

They didn't run any races that Monday ... but they ran on Tuesday .. and a horse who won a 6f dirt race in 1:12.11 got a 74 Beyer.

Thus, assuming the track was as fast Monday morning as it was Tuesday afternoon (impossible to know) Rachel Alexandra's "gallop out" time of 1:10.60 in her final Oaks work would have been the equivlant of a 98 Beyer.

That's just sick!!

[NoLuvForPletch]

Hard Spun's 57 and 2 (57.53) pre derby workout...

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by NoLuvForPletch

Hard Spun's 57 and 2 (57.53) pre derby workout...

It was on a dark day. But the track was very fast the next racing day - would have translated to an 86 Beyer if the track was as fast that morning as it was the following afternoon.

Still, very fast obviously - especially right before a 10f race.

[hoovesupsideyourhead]

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[robfla]

Originally Posted by hoovesupsideyourhead

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[South Beach Luv]

Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

Midnight Lute also worked 1:21+ at Del Mar in advance of the 2008 Pat O'Brien. Broke the track record.

Give me a minute to figure out which Headley horse it was.

He put a good string together before the 2008 BC too:

Midnight Lute has put forth a string of bullet workouts recently at Santa Anita, going four furlongs in :45.40 on September 27, six furlongs in 1:10.60 on October 5, and five furlongs in :56.80 on October 13 leading up to his Monday workout.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by South Beach Luv

He put a good string together before the 2008 BC too:

His 56.80 would have translated to an 85 Beyer if he had run that time in a race later on that afternoon.