The Five Fastest Maidens for the Week of Apr. 30 through May 4

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Who were the five fastest maiden winners based on the Beyer Speed Figures this week? We count them down.

5.  PAHOEHOE D'ORO, OP 5/2 – 6 furlongs

Beyer Speed Figure: 86 Video Replay
(f, 4, Medaglia d'Oro-Miss Exclusive, by Unbridled's Song)
B-Mt Brilliant Broodmares LLC, O-Old Bones Racing Stable LLC, Volcanic Racing LLC and Joey Platts, T-Phil D'Amato, J-Ramon Vazquez.
Back-class pedigree pages don't look much better than this. Her third dam, Juddmonte blue hen Hasili, produced in sequence: Dansili (3rd in Breeders' Cup Mile), Banks Hill (won Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf), Heat Haze (won Beverly D., Matriarch), Intercontinental (won Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf), Cacique (won Manhattan, Man o'War) and Champs Elysees (won Hollywood Turf Cup, Canadian International).
Intercontinental didn't produce much herself, and daughter Miss Exclusive was sold for $750,000 to Mt. Brilliant at Keeneland November in 2018. But Pahoehoe D'Oro, the third of Miss Exclusive's foals to race, is off to a fine start–winning smartly in her second lifetime start after 7 1/2 months. Volcanic Racing owner Larry Goldman must have named her: pahoehoe is a form of volcanic lava.

4. FOUNTAIN LAKE, CD 5/3- 1 1/16 miles

Beyer Speed Figure: 87 Video Replay
(c, 3, Improbable-Doritza, by Mineshaft)
B-Stoneriggs Farm, O-Shortleaf Stable Inc., T-John Ortiz, J-Julian Leparoux.
Fountain Lake's $100k yearling price may turn out to be a bargain. He kicked off Kentucky Derby day wire-to-wire in his sixth lifetime start, with significantly more speed than his previous races. Owner John Ed Anthony has a history of naming colts after Arkansas locations, and this one's namesake is a small community (population 503) a dozen miles from Anthony's Hot Springs home.

3. CONCORD BRIDGE, SA 5/4- 6 1/2 furlongs

Beyer Speed Figure: 89 Video Replay
(c, 3, Medaglia d'Oro-Pauline Revere, by Distorted Humor)
B-Gage Hill Stables LLC and W.S. Farish, O-Antonio P. Sardo, T-Ron Ellis, J-Welfin Orantes.
Claimed for $50,000 in December, he showed flashes of talent in his next start, but nothing like Sunday. Running for the eighth time, he sat behind the leaders and cut the corner through a big rail opening into the stretch–a perfect trip to be sure, but he then showed explosiveness to quickly open daylight. His dam is a half-sister to Grade I sprinter American Theorem, and at one point he was regarded highly enough to bring $850,000 as a yearling.

2. MAINSTREAM, CD 5/3- 7 furlongs (2nd)

Beyer Speed Figure: 92 Video Replay
(c, 3, Speightstown-Lesley May, by Tapit)
B- Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings, O-Jeffrey Drown, Don Rachel LLC and Stonestreet Stables LLC, T-Brad Cox, J-Luis Saez.
The entertaining 14th and final race on the sloppy Kentucky Derby program produced our two fastest maidens last week. In his second start, Mainstream rolled past Pursuitneversleeps into the turn but never completely shook him. The two ultimately left the others far behind and battled to the wire before Pursuitneversleeps edged past. A $485,000 yearling, Mainstream lost his March debut at Gulfstream in much the same fashion.

1. PURSUITNEVERSLEEPS, CD 5/3- 7 furlongs (1st)

Beyer Speed Figure: 93 Video Replay
(c, 3, Ghostzapper-Fashion Factor, by The Factor)
B-Ghostzapper Syndicate, Scarteen Stud and Barry Donworth, O-Bakster Farm LLC, T-Dale Romans, J-Corey Lanerie.
After Pursuitneversleep's mid-March debut second behind Here Comes Francis, a fast 3-year-old sprinter so far under the national radar, owner Jim Bakke targeted this Derby day return. Pursuitneversleeps outbroke Mainstream to be third in a line of four on the pace, then was outfooted and perhaps shuffled back a touch at the half-mile pole, but he kept at it and lived up to his name as the even-money favorite.

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