Colts Vying For Just Desserts In Asahi Hai Futurity

Rated 109, just like fellow group winners Dolce More (Jpn) (Jpn) and Obamburumai (Jpn) (Discreet Cat), All Parfait (Jpn) (Real Steel {Jpn}) is one of the more fancied runners as 17 colts line up for the 1600-metre G1 Asahi Hai Futurity S. at Hanshin on Sunday. Leaving from post three, the Ryoichi Endo homebred has won his past two starts, after running second in a Tokyo maiden in June. Resuming over this trip in a maiden at Nakayama on Oct. 2, he won by two lengths, prior to defeating Danon Touchdown (Jpn) (Lord Kanaloa {GB}) by a half-length over this course and distance in the G2 Daily Hai Nisai S. on Nov. 12.

Takuya Ono has ridden the horse in all his races and said, “He's coming along nicely, but he has to transport over to the track, so I don't want to overdo things with him. He found a good rhythm in the race last time after starting from a wide gate, and was strong in the finish.”

Undefeated in two starts–a Sapporo newcomer affair in August, and besting Granite (Jpn) (Danon Ballade {Jpn}) by 1 1/4 lengths in Tokyo's G3 Saudi Arabia Royal Cup on Oct. 8, Dolce More has been pleasing trainer Naosuke Sugai in his gallops.

“He has been training well, and while he's not one to really catch the eye, he's done enough work and looks fine,” said Sugai. “In his final work, checking his rhythm was more important than his time, and his breathing's been good. He has gained some weight, but that's him developing and it should help him in a race. He ran right-handed in his first race and I'm not worried about it being his first time at the course this time. He doesn't have any bad habits and he's quite a serious horse that can race well, so I don't have any worries with him and hope he can run a good race.”

Last year's champion sire in Britain and Ireland, and this term's European champion sire elect, Frankel (GB) has a pair of colts entered to build on his earlier Japanese successes in the winners Labeling (GB) and Tinia (Ire). Three of Frankel's four stakes winners in the Land of the Rising Sun are Group 1 scorers, with 2020 hero Grenadier Guards (Jpn) holding the stakes record for this race in a snappy 1:32.30. In addition, his Soul Stirring (Jpn) won the G1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies–the filly equivalent–as his very first top-level winner back in 2016, the first year the Juddmonte supremo had runners.

Trainer Yuichi Shikato commented on the prospects of Labeling, “There hasn't been long between races, but he's in very good shape. He ran a good race last time, and with the ability he seems to have, I'll look forward to things from now.”

Bolt d'Oro, who is an excruciatingly close three-way battle with Justify and Good Magic for leading freshman sire Stateside, is represented by $200,000 Keeneland September yearling turned $900,000 OBS March juvenile From Dusk. The progressive colt was second by a length in the G2 Keio Hai Nisai S. to the 109-rated Obamburumai on Nov. 5.

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First Stakes Winner For Dubai Turf Hero Real Steel, As All Parfait Rises To The Top At Hanshin

All Parfait (Jpn) (Real Steel {Jpn}) made it back-to-back victories with a half-length triumph in the 1600-metre G2 Daily Hai Nisai S. at Hanshin on Saturday. Second was race favourite Danon Touchdown (Jpn) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}), who left the gates at 5-2.

The first stakes-winner for his 2016 G1 Dubai Turf-winning sire, the 2-year-old colt broke in the centre of the course from gate 10 and sped up to take command inside the first 100 metres. Hard on the steel, he covered his first 600 metres in :35.30. He soon came under pressure from Shomon (Jpn) (Mind Your Biscuits), but remained a neck in front with 600 metres to travel. Asked for his run in early stretch, the bay lengthened away to a several-length advantage. All Parfait pegged back Danon Touchdown to score, with the latter rallying dramatically from last to just miss. It was a length back to a game Shomon in third.

All Parfait ran second versus newcomers when unveiled over a mile at Tokyo on June 4 and was promptly shelved. He returned over that trip to take a Nakayama maiden on Oct. 2 and was 4-1 on Saturday.

 

Pedigree Notes

The dual Classic-placed Real Steel (Jpn) has 113 juveniles in his first crop. Fifty-three of his progeny have raced, 13 have won, and All Parfait is his first stakes and group winner.

Unraced as a juvenile, Queen Grace (Jpn) (Rulership {Jpn}) scored both of her victories at three over 2000 metres on firm turf at Nakayama on debut and in her career finale at the same course going a mile. All Parfait is her first foal, and she has since produced the yearling colt Glory One (Jpn) (World Ace {Jpn}) and a Kizuna (Jpn) filly of this year foaled on May 4.

Second dam was the winning Pikes Peak (Jpn) (Agnes Tachyon {Jpn}), while All Parfait's third dam was the GII La Prevoyante H. and GIII Glens Falls H. heroine Arvada (GB) (Hernando {Fr}). Knocked down to Shadai Farm for $800,000 in foal to Empire Maker at the 2005 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, the G1 Prix Saint-Alary third would go on to produce 11 foals in Japan, for 11 runners and eight winners.

 

Saturday, Hanshin, Japan
DAILY HAI NISAI S.-G2, ¥72,510,000, Hanshin, 11-12, 2yo, 1600mT, 1:33.20, fm.
1–ALL PARFAIT (JPN), 121, c, 2, by Real Steel (Jpn)
                1st Dam: Queen Grace (Jpn), by Rulership (Jpn)
                2nd Dam: Pikes Peak (Jpn), by Agnes Tachyon (Jpn)
                3rd Dam: Arvada (GB), by Hernando (Fr)
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. 1ST GROUP WIN. O-Ryoichi Endo;
B-Kataoka Farm (Jpn); T-Yuji Wada; J-Takuya Ono.
¥38,357,000. Lifetime Record: 3-2-1-0. Click for the
   free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Werk Nick
   Rating: A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Danon Touchdown (Jpn), 121, c, 2, Lord Kanaloa (Jpn)–Epic
Love (Ire), by Dansili (GB). 1ST BLACK TYPE. 1ST GROUP BLACK
   TYPE. (¥240,000,000 Ylg '21 JRHAJUL). O-Danox Inc.;
B-Northern Farm (Jpn); ¥15,102,000.
3–Shomon (Jpn), 121, c, 2, Mind Your Biscuits–Epoxi (Jpn), by
Deep Impact (Jpn). 1ST BLACK TYPE. 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE.
(¥17,000,000 Wlg '20 JRHAJUL). O-Eiko Hayashi; B-Northern
Farm (Jpn); ¥9,551,000.
Margins: HF, 1, 1. Odds: 4.90, 2.50, 5.10.
Also Ran: Silver Duke (Jpn), Cruzeiro do Sul (Jpn), Shonan Alexa (Jpn), Four Side Nine (Jpn), Tosen Tram (Jpn), Daydream Beach (Jpn), Emi Sakihokoru (Jpn). Click for the JRA chart & video.

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