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Authentic Full-Brother Bushin Switches To Dirt in Japan

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 Chukyo and Hakodate Racecourses:

Saturday, July 8, 2023
3rd-CKO, ¥10,480,000 ($72k), Maiden, 3yo, 1800m
CUPIDON (c, 3, American Pharoah–Chocolate Pop, by Cuvee), a half-brother to the versatile MGSW & GISP Airoforce (Colonel John), finished midfield in two tries over this distance at Hanshin last year and made his seasonal return with a runner-up effort in a 1400-meter allowance at Urawa on the NAR circuit June 1. A $300,000 purchase by Kokhi Maeda out of the 2021 Keeneland September sale, the gray would become a 31st Japanese winner for his Triple Crown-winning sire. Springhouse Farm acquired the multiple stakes-placed Chocolate Pop in foal to Bernardini for $460,000 at Keeneland January in 2017. B-Camas Park Stud & Lynch Bages Ltd (KY)

Sunday, July 9, 2023
1st-HAK, ¥10,480,000 ($72k), Maiden, 2yo, 1000m
BUSHIN (c, 2, Into Mischief–Flawless, by Mr. Greeley), the full-brother to Horse of the Year Authentic, switches to a minimum trip on the dirt for this third go, having finished a debut third at a mile on the grass June 3 and second over six furlongs at this venue June 24 (see below, SC 8). Flawless was offered with this colt in utero at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton November Sale days after Authentic's championships-clinching victory in the GI Breeders' Cup Classic, but was retained by Peter Blum after bidding reached $4.1 million. Bushin fetched $800,000 at Keeneland September last fall and the mare has since foaled a pair of Into Mischief fillies for Blum. B-Peter E Blum Thoroughbreds LLC (KY)

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Study Confirms Hair Testing For Long-Term Detection Of Bisphosphonates

A new study was published on the use of hair as a matrix for the long-term detection of bisphosphonates in horses. The study was in response to a special call for bisphosphonate research by Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation in 2019.

“Over the past few years, bisphosphonate use has become a concern with regard to the welfare of Thoroughbred racehorses,” said Jamie Haydon, president of Grayson. “We are very thankful for the generous support by Vinnie and Teresa Viola's St. Elias Stables and their ability to recognize the importance of this research in promoting equine safety and welfare.”

“Bisphosphonates are labeled for horses 4 years and older to manage navicular symptoms,” said Dr. Johnny Smith, A. Gary Lavin Research Chair of Grayson. “Unfortunately, people were using them in young horses, which is detrimental because bisphosphonates inhibit bone resorption, can stay in a horse's system for years, and can have long-term effects on bone.”

The new study found that hair testing can be used to consistently detect bisphosphonates for up to six months after administration. Previously published studies, including one conducted by the same group and funded under the same special call, demonstrated that in some cases bisphosphonates can be detected in blood and urine for extended periods of time, but detection using these matrices can be unpredictable and less consistent.

“Our study from 2020 showed that clodronate and tiludronate reside in the bone for extended periods,” said the study's principal investigator, Dr. Heather K. Knych, who is with the K.L. Maddy Equine Analytical Chemistry Lab's Pharmacology section and the Department of Molecular Biosciences, at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis. “This can lead to lasting pharmacologic effects and increase the risks of injury to racehorses. Being able to detect bisphosphonates long term in hair benefits the athletes and increases the integrity of the sport.”

Bisphosphonates are considered a banned substance for covered horses under the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority's Anti-Doping and Medication Control program. A covered horse that tests positive is subject to lifetime ineligibility.

The study was conducted by Knych; D.S. McKemie, Department of Molecular Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis; S. Yim, K.L. Maddy Equine Analytical Pharmacology Lab, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis; S.D. Stanley, University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, MH Gluck Equine Research Center, Lexington, Kentucky; and R.M. Arthur, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis. Read the study here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jchromb.2023.123789.

Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation is traditionally the nation's leading source of private funding for equine medical research that benefits all breeds of horses. Since 1940, the foundation has provided more than $40 million to fund more than 426 projects at 45 universities in North America and overseas. Additional information about the foundation is available at grayson-jockeyclub.org.

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Returning Home After Two Group 1 Wins In Australia, Dubai Honour Could Post Upset In Coral-Eclipse

Tom Marquand believes Dubai Honour has what it takes to trouble market principals Paddington and Emily Upjohn in Saturday's Coral-Eclipse, with a field reduced to four following the news that Owen Burrows' rising star Anmaat will miss the race with a foot abscess.

Marquand bid farewell to a much-loved ally when his 2021 Coral-Eclipse runner-up Addeybb was retired at the end of last season with three Australian Group 1 wins under his belt, but Dubai Honour is shaping up to be the perfect replacement and has possibly been underestimated in betting for Saturday's Sandown Park Group 1, which is part of the 35-race QIPCO British Champions Series.

The William Haggas-trained 5-year-old had his stable-mate Addeybb four places behind him when runner-up to Sealiway in the 2021 QIPCO Champion Stakes but failed to win last year. Fortunately, Haggas and the team at Somerville Lodge kept faith with him and it has been rewarded already this year by wins in two of the Australian Group 1s which Addeybb won.

Marquand missed the first of those wins while recovering from a shoulder injury he incurred in a hideous fall at Randwick in February, but he was back on board for the Queen Elizabeth Stakes defeat of Australian legend Anamoe, as well as a subsequent third in Hong Kong, and he IS riding at the top of his form, as two recent Royal Ascot wins confirm.

He said: “Dubai Honour never got a clean run at anything last year, whether it was the way the race was run, the ground, or whatever, but he went down to Australia with a very similar profile to Addeybb as he was already on the cusp of being a Group 1 horse. He got his head in front in a Group 1 for the first time in the Ranvet, and then he won easily in the Queen Elizabeth.

“It really hurt missing the Ranvet, especially as the fall was caused by factors that had nothing to do with me. It's one thing when a fall is your own fault, but when it's taken out of your hands like that and it was tough. Proper tough.

“Normally if you get injured in February you wouldn't miss anything, but I missed the Ranvet by only a few days, getting back in five weeks when they had told me to expect eight weeks as an optimistic estimate. I missed another Group 1 as well as I'd also been booked to ride Artorius.”

He added: “Dubai Honour was exceptional in the Queen Elizabeth. We stuck a target on Anamoe, who had won nine Group 1s and looked the one to beat, and everything went to plan the whole way. Anamoe is a beast, and a champion in his own right, so it was no mean feat swinging by a horse like that at the furlong pole.

“Australia was Dubai Honour's new beginning as a Group 1 horse and we are looking forward to his first run back in a Group 1 on home turf. The stiff finish will suit him and it looks as if he might be better going right-handed. It's a tough race, but hopefully he can finish off with a bit of a rattle. And if he can't win this one, he's got nice options through the rest of the year.”

Jamie Spencer, partner of outsider in the field of four, West Wind Blows, has already won a Coral-Eclipse on David Junior in 2006. He appreciates that the Simon and Ed Crisford-trained 4-year-old needs to improve again, but he certainly won't be disgraced judged on his win in the Group 3 win in La Coupe at Longchamp on his first start since being gelded and a subsequent second to Pyledriver in a Hardwicke Stakes which was a Group 1 in all but name.

Spencer, who didn't ride him in La Coupe, said: “He won well in France and it was a good run last time. He's got a bit to find on the ratings in what looks a strong field, but he gets the trip well.

“I didn't intend to make the running at Ascot, and he was better in France when he got a lead, but he was drawn out wide and the pace went out of the race before Swinley Bottom so I let him coast to the front. We have the option of leading, but it would be ideal if somebody else wanted to go on.”

Reflecting on his win on David Junior, who beat a field which included Ouija Board and Notnowcato, he said: “I was very lucky to get on him as we'd already won the Champion Stakes and the Dubai Duty Free when we went for the Eclipse, which was a very good day.

“David Junior needed a fast pace and the tactics worked out well as Brian (Meehan) had bought a pacemaker for him. He took a bit of warming up in his races and he wasn't easy to train, so I don't think people appreciated at the time what a great job Brian did in getting it right in those top races.”

Paddington bids to give Aidan O'Brien a record seventh win in the Coral-Eclipse just six days after his landmark 100th European Classic win with Auguste Rodin in the Irish Derby. O'Brien, who currently shares the Eclipse record with Alec Taylor junior and Sir Michael Stoute, keeps pushing the frontiers and Paddington has strong claims if he stays the longer trip, despite having started the season in a handicap.

He looked good in the Irish 2000 Guineas and even better when beating the QIPCO 2000 Guineas winner Chaldean impressively at Royal Ascot. In Siyouni, he has the same sire as O'Brien's 2021 Coral-Eclipse winner St Mark's Basilica.

Emily Upjohn, on whom William Buick takes the place of the suspended Frankie Dettori, has not raced over this sort of trip since her runaway win in last year's Musidora Stakes, but she is not short of speed, as she showed when displaying a smart change of gear to beat last year's Irish Derby winner Westover in last month's Coronation Cup.

Interestingly she has been declared to run without the hood she wore when impressing on QIPCO British Champions Day and again at Epsom last time.

Her trainer John Gosden, now in partnership with his son Thady, teamed up with Buick to win his first Coral-Eclipse with Nathaniel in 2012 and has since won the race with Golden Horn, Roaring Lion and Enable.

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Flavien Prat Voted Jockey Of The Week After Pair Of Graded Wins At Ellis Park

Flavien Prat invaded Ellis Park on Saturday and came away with Grade 1 and Grade 2 stakes wins and the honor of Jockey of the Week for June 26 through July 2 by the panel of racing experts. The award recognizes jockeys for riding accomplishments and who are members of the Jockeys' Guild, the organization which represents more than 1,050 active, retired and permanently disabled jockeys in the United States.

While usually riding in New York at Belmont Park, Prat travelled to Kentucky for the penultimate day of the Churchill Downs meet at Ellis Park which featured six stakes races.

The Greg Foley-trained Stitched with Prat in the irons, went off at odds of 46-1, the second longest shot in the field 10 in the G2 Wise Dan. Racing in fourth and four-wide through the second turn, Stitched had his sights set on the leader Get Smokin. Stitched caught Get Smokin in the final sixteenth to post a neck win in 1:40.97 for the 1 1/16 miles on the turf rated as good. Prat picked up the mount on Stitched when Marcelino Pedroza, Jr. was unavailable to ride.

“I'm really grateful I got the mount,” said Prat. “He broke well from the gate and was able to be in a good position when we needed to make a move. He gave me a chance to get into the race and he did things from there.”

Brad Cox gave a leg up to Prat in the feature race of the day, the Grade 1, $1 million Stephen Foster aboard West Will Power. Off as the 2-1 favorite in the field of eight, West Will Power broke sharply from post position six and sat a perfect stalking trip in second. He grabbed the lead on the far turn and held off the fast closing Rattle N Roll to win by a half length in 1:47.93 for nine furlongs on the main track.

The Stephen Foster was the third win of the day for Prat.

“He was cruising all the way around there,” Prat said. “He just carried me home to the wire down the stretch. I was really impressed by the way he won this winter at Fair Grounds in the New Orleans Classic (G2). It was a different setup last time out in the Alysheba (G2). He came back here to Ellis and the race shape was much more to his style.”

Prat outpolled Javier Castellano who won two stakes races including the G2 John A. Nerud, Emisael Jaramillo who won the G2 Smile Sprint, Sheldon Russell who won all three stakes races at Laurel, and Luis Saez with three stakes wins.

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