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Pharoah Rules in Sirius S.

Café Pharoah (Jpn) (American Pharoah) dispatched his elders with deceptive ease when taking Saturday’s 1900-metre G3 Sirius S. at Chukyo. Pounded down to 70 cents on the dollar, the son of 2015 American Triple Crown winner American Pharoah was taking his second Japanese group race.

The favourite settled in midfield while Chimera Verite (Jpn) (Kizuna {Jpn}) opened up several lengths on the chasing pack. Still eighth on the far turn, Café Pharoah swung wide into the homestretch. Fanned out to the centre of the track for the stretch drive, the Koichi Nishikawa colourbearer took dead aim on Sakura Allure (Jpn) (Gold Allure {Jpn}) as Chimera Verite folded and bounded away to win by a length. Sakura Allure was 3/4 of a length to the good of Acorn (Jpn) (Furioso {Jpn}), while Danon Splendor (Jpn) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}) was another 1 1/4 lengths back in fourth.

A winner of a 2-year-old newcomer affair at Nakayama last December, Café Pharoah added the Listed Hyacinth S. at Tokyo this February and the G3 Unicorn S. there in June. He lost his unbeaten record to Danon Pharoah (Jpn) (American Pharoah) when seventh in the slop at Oi in the Listed Dirt Derby on July 8 and was subsequently benched.

Pedigree Notes

Café Pharoah is one of 10 black-type winners and seven at group level for his Ashford Stud-based sire. He shares his damsire More Than Ready with GII Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint and GIII Futurity S. hero Four Wheel Drive (American Pharoah). GII Mrs. Revere S. and GIII Boiling Springs S. heroine Mary’s Follies foaled a colt by Uncle Mo that later died in 2018. She has a yearling colt by Candy Ride (Arg) and a Connect colt of this year born Apr. 16. She was bred back to Curlin. The winner’s third dam was a four-time black-type winner on the Louisiana circuit.

Saturday, Chukyo, Japan
SIRIUS S.-G3, ¥68,820,000 (US$653,506/£505,198/€557,831), Chukyo, 10-3, 3yo/up, 1900m, 1:57.80, ft.
1–CAFE PHAROAH, 119, c, 3, American Pharoah
                1st Dam: Mary’s Follies (MGSW-US, $338,889),
                                by More Than Ready
                2nd Dam: Catch the Queen, by Miswaki
                3rd Dam: Wave to the Queen, by Wavering Monarch
($475,000 2yo ’19 OBSMAR). O-Koichi Nishikawa; B- Paul P.
Pompa (KY); T-Noryuki Hori; J-Christophe Lemaire.
¥36,574,000. Lifetime Record: 5-4-0-0. *1/2 to Night Prowler
(Giant’s Causeway), MGSW-US, $475,682; and Regal Glory
(Animal Kingdom), MGSW-US, $773,884. Werk Nick Rating:
   A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Sakura Allure (Jpn), 119, h, 5, Gold Allure (Jpn)–Shiroganese
Cafe, by Gulch. O-Sakura Commerce; B-Tanioka Farm (Jpn);
¥14,164,000.
3–Acorn (Jpn), 121, h, 5, Furioso (Jpn)–Lament (Jpn), by Admire
Moon (Jpn). O-Isao Nishimori; B-Kineusu Saito Farm (Jpn);
¥9,082,000.
Margins: 3/4, 1 1/4, 1HF. Odds: 0.70, 39.50, 55.30.
Also Ran: Danon Splendor (Jpn), Meisho Wazashi (Jpn), Ardore (Jpn), Sunday Wizard (Jpn), M O Glitter (Jpn), Great Time (Jpn), T O Helios (Jpn), Mitsuba (Jpn), Namura Arashi (Jpn), Chimera Verite (Jpn), Daishin Indi (Jpn), Lance of Puraana (Jpn), Daimei Corrida (Jpn).
Click for the JRA chart & video or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Oct. 2 Insights

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PAIR OF BLUE-BLOODS DEBUT IN NY

4th-BEL, $63K, Msw, 3yo/up, 6f, 2:30p.m.

Regally bred Godolphin homebred TACTICAL MOVE (First Defence) debuts for Bill Mott in this test off of a string of bullet works, most recently breezing a best-of-30 half-mile in :49 flat on Saratoga’s Oklahoma track Sept. 21. He is out of Grade I winner Game Face (Menifee), who is also responsible for GSP Coliseum (Tapit). Chad Brown also unveils a well-bred runner in Juddmonte homebred Starfront (Malibu Moon), a half to GSP Eloquent Riddle (Harlan’s Holiday). His second dam is MGSW Media Nox (GB) (Lycius), who produced MG1SW Nebraska Tornado (Storm Cat). TJCIS PPs

COX UNVEILS JUDDMONTE HOMEBRED

5th-KEE, $70K, Msw, 2yo, f, 6f, 3:20 p.m.

Juddmonte homebred SUN PATH (Munnings) makes her career bow in this test for Brad Cox. She is a full-sister to the Cox-trained Grade II winner and Grade I-placed Bonny South. Her dam is a half to Group 1 winner Etoile Montante (Miswaki), who is responsible for MGSW Starformer (Dynaformer).

TJCIS PPs

PRICEY PHAROAH COLT MAKES CAREER BOW AT KEENELAND

10th-KEE, $70K, Msw, 2yo, 1 1/16m, 6:15 p.m.

The China Horse Club went to $525,000 at Keeneland September last year to acquire NARMER (American Pharoah) and he debuts here for Chad Brown. Out of G1SP Maryinsky (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells), the bay is a half to European champion Peeping Fawn (Danehill), who in turn produced SW & MG1SP September (Ire) (Deep Impact {Jpn}); and Group 1 winner Thewayyouare (Kingmambo). Second dam and MGISW Blush With Pride (Blushing Groom {Fr}) produced GSW & MGISP blue hen Better Than Honour (Deputy Minister), who is the dam of a pair of GI Belmont S. winners in Jazil (Seeking the Gold) and champion Rags to Riches (A.P. Indy). This is also the family of GISW Streaming (Smart Strike). TJCIS PPs

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MGSP Van Gogh Returns at The Curragh

Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-pedigreed horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Sunday’s Insights features the MGSP Van Gogh (American Pharoah).

1.25 Curragh, Mdn, €16,500, 2yo, 7fT
VAN GOGH (American Pharoah) reverts to maiden company after runner-up placings in the G3 Tyros S. and G2 Champions Juvenile at Leopardstown and should be able to make his class tell. Among the unraced members of the cast facing Ballydoyle’s son of the 2001 G1 Irish 1000 Guineas and G1 Epsom Oaks heroine Imagine (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells) and half-brother to Horatio Nelson (Ire) (Danehill) are Micheal Ryan’s homebred filly Rince Beo (Ire) (Frankel {GB}), a Johnny Murtagh-trained daughter of the “living legend” Finsceal Beo (Ire) (Mr. Greeley). Jim Bolger also unveils another daughter of a Classic winner in Wisteria Girl (Ire) (Dawn Approach {Ire}), with Joseph Joyce’s colour-bearer being out of the 2005 G1 Irish 1000 Guineas heroine Saoire (GB) (Pivotal {GB}).

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Spielberg Receives Top Billing in American Pharoah

The highly regarded Spielberg (Union Rags) will look to earn his diploma in Saturday’s GI American Pharoah S., a qualifier for the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile.

Produced by a winning daughter of Smart Strike, the long-striding $1-million KEESEP yearling purchase figures to appreciate this stretch to two turns off a pair of runner-up finishes behind the talented Dr. Schivel (Violence), including a game effort after dueling throughout in the seven-furlong GI Runhappy Del Mar Futurity S. Sept. 7.

Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert seeks his record 10th victory in this race, named in honor of his 2015 Triple Crown hero, off the heels of wins with Game Winner (2018) and Eight Rings (2019).

“I think Spielberg should like two turns,” Baffert said of the 3-1 morning-line favorite. “They went really fast early in the Futurity and he got beat by a really nice horse. I really think two turns will be better for him, just the way he moves and all. He’s bred for it.”

Weston (Hit It a Bomb) will also try a route for the first time. The narrow GII Best Pal S. winner was third, beaten 5 1/2 lengths, after pressing the pace in the Del Mar Futurity. He became his freshman sire (by War Front)’s first winner at Santa Anita in June, and the Spendthrift stallion’s first stakes and graded stakes winner in the Best Pal.

Waspirant (Union Rags), a son of GI Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic heroine Life Is Sweet (Storm Cat), followed a well-beaten fourth behind Dr. Schivel and Spielberg on debut in a six-furlong special weight with a maiden breaker going a mile at Del Mar Aug. 29. John Shirreffs adds blinkers for this following the win.

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