Month: May 2023

Well-Bred Justify Filly Goes For Two Straight at Kyoto

In this continuing series, we take a look ahead at US-bred and/or conceived runners entered for the upcoming weekend at the tracks on the Japan Racing Association circuit, with a focus on pedigree and/or performance in the sales ring. Here are the horses of interest for this weekend running at Kyoto Racecourse:

6th-KYO, ¥14,880,000 ($110k), Allowance, 3yo, 1400m
ANGE FIELD (JPN) (f, 3, Justify–Not Now Carolyn, by Tapit), purchased for ¥80 million ($745,639) as a foal at the 2020 JHRA Select Sale, got her career off on a positive note for trainer Yoshito Yahagi when taking out a 1200-meter maiden at Hanshin Mar. 12 (see below, SC 1). The chestnut's dam was a three time winner at the races of just shy of $100,000 and was hammered down to Shimokobe Farm for $140,000 at the 2018 Keeneland November Sale before being bred to this Triple Crown winner and exported in utero. Not Now Carolyn is a daughter of Grade I winner Maryfield (Elusive Quality), winner of the inaugural Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint in 2007. B-Shimokobe Farm

 

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Appleby’s Flying Honours Pleases In Newmarket Gallop

Godolphin's Flying Honours (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) worked a mile under William Buick at Newmarket's Rowley Mile on Friday. The work was preparation for a start in the G1 Betfred Derby at Epsom Downs in June.

The 3-year-old colt worked in company with GI Breeders' Cup Turf hero Yibir (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) and Natural World (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) prior to Friday's card. The G2 Dante S. at York on May 18 is next on the G3 Zetland S. hero's agenda.

Appleby said, “I'm delighted with that piece of work. At the end of the day, he has worked with no mug there in Yibir.

“We were intending to go to Sandown last week with Flying Honours, but that got rained off, and the plan now is that if he comes out of this piece of work well is to head to York for the Dante.

“He has got a lovely profile stepping up to this middle-distance category this year. The Dante is the race that if you go and win afterwards you will probably be second favourite for the Derby. At the end of the day it is one of the best trials.

“This horse will get a mile and a half no problem at all. He is a neat horse and he has got enough racing experience under him now to head to a track like Epsom.

“Until you have been around there you can never hand on heart say you handle it but I believe he has got enough race experience to go there and handle it fine.”

Another of Appleby's Epsom Classic contenders, Military Order (Ire) (Frankel {GB}), will target the Listed Lingfield Derby Trial S. at Lingfield on May 13. This is the same route as his Derby-winning brother Adayar (Ire) took prior to winning the Blue Riband.

Appleby said, “I was very pleased with what I saw from Military Order at Newbury. People will say it was a slow time but they weren't going to be setting records in those conditions.

“I just loved his demeanour and the way that he galloped out. He has come out of it very well and he is bred to win a Derby.

“He will now head to Lingfield and follow the trodden route of his brother Adayar, who won this race in 2021, and then we will work it out from there.”

Imperial Emperor (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) has been re-routed to either the G2 King Edward VII S. at Royal Ascot or the G1 Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh. The son of GI Man o'War S. heroine Zhukova (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) took his only start at Newmarket in October.

“I've just taken my time with Imperial Emperor,” Appleby continued. “He is very closely related to Ghaiyyath (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) and in his 3-year-old career he met with a setback.

“It is always on my mind that he is a mile and a quarter to a mile and a half Dubawi and you just can't push them. People will say that I did it with Coroebus (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) but that was different as he was a miler.

“Wholeheartedly, I would probably say I won't be getting there with him. I would rather bring him along and we might end up going to Royal Ascot or the Irish Derby with him.

“He is a horse that I have high regards for but one that we will look after along the way.”

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TDN Rising Star Badge For Sea The Stars Filly

One of Newmarket's Spring talking horses, Oaks entry Infinite Cosmos (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}–Waila {GB}, by Notnowcato {GB}) duly opened her account with comfort in the 10-furlong Nyetimber Maiden Fillies' S. on QIPCO Guineas Friday to become her sire's 17th TDN Rising Star. Representing the longstanding Rothschild-Sir Michael Stoute connection, the relative of Sea The Stars' high-class Crystal Ocean (GB) had been second to the subsequent G3 Prix Penelope runner-up Sea Of Roses (GB) (Sea The Moon {Ger}) in a Doncaster maiden in October and started as the 8-11 favourite with Ryan Moore engaged to give connections the lowdown.

Racing prominently, the homebred had the measure of long-time leader Therapist (GB) (Le Havre {Ire}) passing two out and found her feet on the climb to the line to score by 4 1/4 lengths from Strong Impact (Ire) (Saxon Warrior {Jpn}), who denied Therapist by a neck. Stoute was keeping a lid on things, despite some bookmakers promoting her to favourite for the Epsom Classic. “I didn't think she was impressive there, only workmanlike, but she is still learning on the job,” he said. “We'll run her in a trial and make a decision after that, but I don't think she's going to be sparkly at this stage of her career–she needs to grow up and is taking time to learn. She may be impervious to ground conditions.”

Infinite Cosmos has some big shoes to fill, with her sire's impressive TDN Rising Star haul including Crystal Ocean himself, as well as the star fillies Emily Upjohn (GB) and Star Catcher (GB) and the G1 Deutsches Derby-winning sire Sea The Moon (Ger). She is the fourth foal out of Waila, who was also under Ryan Moore when recording a career-best 10-length success in the 12-furlong Listed Aphrodite S. on the July Course here 10 years ago and who was third in the G3 Lillie Langtry S.

Waila, who was sold to BBA Ireland for 550,000gns at the most recent Tatts December Sale, also has a yearling full-sister to the winner who was also purchased at that auction for 400,000gns by McKeever Bloodstock for Ballyhimikin as part of Southcourt Stud's partial dispersal. She is a daughter of Crystal Cavern (Be My Guest), a half to the G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches heroine Rose Gypsy (GB) (Green Desert) whose daughter Crystal Star (GB) (Mark Of Esteem {Ire}) captured the Listed Radley S. and was second in the G3 Fred Darling S.

Before her death in 2015, Crystal Star proved a rich font of successful runners for Southcourt Stud, producing four black-type performers beginning with Crystal Capella (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}) who captured two renewals of the G2 Pride S. as well as the G2 Princess Of Wales's S. and G3 Middleton S. Her next big-time personality was the GI Canadian International and G2 King Edward VII S. scorer Hillstar (GB) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}), before Crystal Ocean arrived on the scene with wins in the G1 Prince of Wales's S. and G2 Hardwicke S. and five other group races and five second placings at the highest level including two in the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth S.

7th-Newmarket, £15,000, Mdn, 5-5, 3yo, f, 10fT, 2:07.29, gd.
INFINITE COSMOS (IRE), f, 3, by Sea The Stars (Ire)
     1st Dam: Waila (GB) (SW & GSP-Eng), by Notnowcato (GB)
     2nd Dam: Crystal Cavern, by Be My Guest
     3rd Dam: Krisalya (GB), by Kris (GB)
Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0, $12,121. O-Exors of the late Sir E D Rothschild; B-South Court Stud (IRE); T-Sir Michael Stoute. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

 

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Half-Dozen Derby Entrants Will Come To The Race Off The Vet’s List

For the second year in a row, the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission's veterinarian's list shows that several Kentucky Derby contenders and one Kentucky Oaks contender will be making their start in the big races fresh off the veterinarian's list.

Brad Cox trainees Hit Show, Jace's Road, and Angel of Empire, as well as Todd Pletcher trainees Kingsbarns and likely favorite Forte, are all on the list with on dates of April 22 and pre-determined “off” dates on Derby Day. Keith Desormeaux trainee Confidence Game appeared on the list April 21 and has an off date of Oaks Day. Cox's Oaks entry, Wet Paint, went on the list April 21 and has an off date of Oaks Day also.

None of the trainers responded to inquiries from the Paulick Report about the reason for the horses' appearance on the list. When a similar query came up last year, KHRC officials indicated they could not provide details about the reason for a horse's appearance on the vet's list.

The most recent version of the veterinarian's list for Kentucky is available on the commission's website here. A version of the list dated April 24 included the Cox and Desormeaux horses, but not the Pletcher horses, who appeared on the May 4 version with the same on-date as Cox's Derby horses.

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“The list is added to almost daily as I receive treatment sheets,” said KHRC equine medical director Dr. Bruce Howard. “I post the updated version once a week. I was delayed in getting it posted due to a busy week. There may have been a gap due to treatments being reported outside the posting of one list and the second list.”

The veterinarian's list is used for a variety of regulatory purposes. When it's used to flag a horse veterinarians believe may have a soundness or medical issue, there is often not an “off date” listed. It also may be used to restrict a horse's ability to start for a set amount of time. An off date may be used if officials want to make sure a horse doesn't start in a race until after an approved therapeutic drug has cleared the system, or until another, more minor physical issue has had time to resolve. National regulations under the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority call for the list to be used in the same way across the country as it has been for several years in Kentucky.

All horses are set to be on the list for two weeks before coming off. When we reported on a similar situation last year (which also included Pletcher trainees), those horses also had pre-determined off dates at two weeks. At that time, a spokeswoman for the commission indicated that intra-articular injections are one reason a horse may be prescribed a two-week waiting period on the veterinarian's list. A first-time bleeding incident is another.

Read our reporting on Derby vet's list appearances from 2022.

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