Speed figures: These are Friday's fastest winners
One Nine Hundred posted Friday's highest Horse Racing Nation speed figure, earning a 140 while winning an allowance-optional claiming sprint going six furlongs on the Aqueduct dirt. The Thomas Morley trainee, sent off the 2-1 second choice of six, dueled early and then kicked away to win by 4 1/2 lengths. He won for the third time in his seven-race career, and has hit the board in every start except for a stakes-level try last May in the Chick Lang at Pimlico.
Bless the Broken, making her first start since selling last November and moving from the Will Walden barn to the Brad Cox barn, earned a 133 HRN speed figure in a 1 1/16-mile allowance optional claimer on the Fair Grounds dirt. As the 2-1 second choice of seven, she attended the pace before clearing in the final furlong to win by two lengths. The 4-year-old daughter of Laoban, third in the 2025 Kentucky Oaks (G1), won for the third time in 10 career races.
Sippin On Gin completed the top three with a 129 HRN speed figure at Fair Grounds in a Louisiana-bred allowance-optional claimer at a mile and 70 yards on the dirt. The 4-year-old Mr. Money colt, trained by Bret Calhoun, rallied from near the rear to get up my a neck, winning as the 4-5 favorite in the eight-horse field. He won for the fourth time in nine starts and has been in the exacta in eight of those nine outings.
Friday's top 10 speed figures
| HRN | Horse | Sire | Age | Race | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 140 | One Nine Hundred | Dialed In | 4C | AQU 7 | 6f dirt |
| 133 | Bless the Broken | Laoban | 4F | FG 6 | 1 1/16 dirt |
| 129 | Sippin On Gin | Mr. Money | 4C | FG 5 | 1 mile 70 yds dirt |
| 126 | Medagooch | Speightster | 5G | LRL 4 | 5 1/2f dirt |
| 124 | Kokosan | Unified | 4C | SA 6 | 1 mile turf |
| 122 | Strong Destiny | Constitution | 4F | TP 3 | 1 1/4 syn |
| 122 | What Say Thee | Sea The Stars | 8G | TP 2 | 1 mile syn |
| 122 | Sequential | Nyquist | 5G | AQU 5 | 1 mile dirt |
| 121 | Awesome Andy | Spun to Run | 3C | LRL 8 | 5 1/2f dirt |
| 120 | Baby Max | Maximus Mischief | 4C | TP 8 | 1 mile syn |
Fastest maiden winners
Kokosan posted a 124 HRN speed figure, the highest of any maiden winner Friday, in a one-mile maiden special weight on the Santa Anita grass. Coming out of a fifth-place finish in the Hollywood Derby (G1), the John Sadler trainee stalked the pace and cleared off in the lane to win by 5 1/4 lengths as the 4-5 favorite of six. The 4-year-old son of Unified graduated in his eighth career start. He is the first starter out of his dam, the Hold Me Back mare Coldwater, who won three times in 24 starts and earned $108,342 on the track.
Strong Destiny impressed with a 122 HRN speed figure in a 1 1/4-mile maiden special weight on the Tapeta at Turfway. The 4-year-old Constitution filly, trained by Philip Sims, prompted the pace and then took over in the lane to win by 8 1/2 lengths. She was the 4-1 second choice in the field of eight. Strong Destiny got her diploma in her sixth career start, her first on a synthetic footing. She is out of the Speightstown mare Barbadia, who hit the board once in four starts but is from a deeply classy family. Barbadia is a half-sister to France Group 1 winner Etoile Montante and also half to the dams of both Grade 1 winner Obligatory and Grade 2 winner Bonny South. Strong Destiny's top-earning sibling is Ducale, an 8-year-old Twirling Candy gelding who has won five times and earned $315,106 so far.
Sequential also earned a 122 HRN speed figure Friday, breaking his maiden in his ninth career start. Sent off the 5-1 second choice of five in a maiden-optional claiming dirt mile at Aqueduct, the 5-year-old son of Nyquist set a pressured pace and kept fighting to win by a neck. The Linda Rice trainee was up for the optional $40,000 tag but was not claimed out of the race. Sequential is out of the Dehere mare Beautician, who was multiple Grade 1-placed as a juvenile and a stakes winner at age 4. Beautician is a half-sister to three other stakes winners as well, including Grade 2 winner Red Ruby and Grade 3 winner Mo Tom. Sequential's highest-earning half-sibling to date, the Speightstown son Preamble, won four times and earned $167,886.
Friday's top maiden winners
| HRN | Horse | Sire | Age | Race | Distance | Winning Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 124 | Kokosan | Unified | 4C | SA 6 | 1 mile turf | 5 1/4 |
| 122 | Strong Destiny | Constitution | 4F | TP 3 | 1 1/4 syn | 8 1/2 |
| 122 | Sequential | Nyquist | 5G | AQU 5 | 1 mile dirt | 1/4 |
| 117 | Operation Overlord | Into Mischief | 4C | GP 8 | 1 3/16 syn | 1 1/2 |
| 109 | Cademan | Neolithic | 3C | TAM 3 | 6 1/2f dirt | 1 |
| 108 | Robusta | Accelerate | 3C | SA 3 | 1 mile dirt | 1/2 |
| 107 | Epic Desire | Uncle Mo | 3C | TAM 2 | 1 mile 40 yds dirt | 2 1/2 |
| 105 | Velocity Girl | Rock Your World | 3F | LRL 7 | 1 mile dirt | 10 3/4 |
| 103 | Menkaure | City of Light | 3F | TP 5 | 6 1/2f syn | 1/2 |
| 99 | Lost in the Sauce | Bolt d'Oro | 5H | FG 3 | 6f dirt | 1 1/4 |
About HRN speed figures
HRN speed figures are AI-generated using HRN's proprietary machine-learning algorithms. Although they involve less human input than other speed figures, we see that as a plus as human adjustments often knock down surprisingly good performances to match expectations. HRN speed figures were launched in December 2024, and our expectation is also that the AI-generated speed figures will continuously get better over time.
The HRN speed figure scale goes from 1 to 160. Part of the reason for this higher scale is this helps us avoid assigning a speed figure of zero. For some products, in weaker races, half the field or more may get a speed figure of zero, which leads to inaccuracy and defeats the purpose of speed figures.
Because the HRN speed figures are based on machine learning, as we improve our models we can compute the numbers historically.
Using the top last-race speed figure as a benchmark, here are stats from 2021 to 2024 for HRN and other speed-figure providers:
Top HRN figure 26.2% winners
Top Beyer figure 28.1% winners
Top TimeformUS figure 28.4% winners
Although all HRN speed figures are published on individual horse profile pages on a weekly basis, the daily reports are focused on the top and medium-tier tracks, which represent the majority of top speed figures.
Note: For the fastest maiden winners mentioned, all dam and sibling earnings are based on North American starts only.