Have You Heard About The Latest Son Of Deep Impact To Stand In Ireland?

Lemongrove Stud may have been the newest name on this year's Irish Thoroughbred Stallion Trail and stallion master Tom Wallace, who is set to stand Tosen Stardom (Jpn) at the County Westmeath operation this year, is confident that the son of Deep Impact (Jpn) will provide something different for breeders. 

Wallace, a notable breeder who has, up until now, yet to dip his toe into standing a stallion, said the opportunity to offer a dual Group 1-winning son of the late, great Deep Impact, was too great an offer to turn down. 

Tosen Stardom began his racing career in Japan before transferring to Australia where he recorded both of his Group 1 successes. 

Owned by Emiratis Hamad Al Kadfoor and his racing business partner Ali Farooq, Tosen Stardom is shuttling from Woodside Park Stud for the 2023 northern hemisphere breeding season and is already booked in to see over 40 mares. 

Wallace said, “Obviously some people might be a little bit wary about a new unknown stallion who is standing at a stud they never heard of before but, to try and get your hands on a horse who has won two Group 1s in Europe, that's extremely difficult. 

“Has he been difficult to market? Not at all. The Deep Impact connection is working in our favour and the fact that he was an unbeaten two-year-old in Japan is a major help as well. Everyone tells me that Deep Impact's progeny do better with time, as this lad did, so for him to do what he did at two shows how good a horse he was.”

He added, “Not only did he win a listed race as a 2-year-old, but he also started favourite for the Japanese Derby at three, only to hit the rail when coming with his run and eventually finishing down the field. He achieved a rating of 118 which is three pounds higher than Study Of Man (Ire) and only three pounds lower than Saxon Warrior (Jpn) who won the 2000 Guineas. He's a gorgeous horse.”

Tosen Stardom was not the first horse who was put to Wallace with a view towards standing him at Lemongrove. Based a couple of miles down the road from Tally-Ho Stud, an operation that knows a thing or two about producing speed, Wallace turned down the chance to stand a smart Australian sprinter in the opinion that he would be bringing an apple to an orchard. But in Tosen Stardom, he was confident he could offer breeders something different. 

He explained, “I was asked if I had any interest in standing a good Australian sprinter but, where I am based, you have Tally-Ho Stud a couple of miles down the road and Starfield Stud isn't too far from me either. Tally-Ho specialises in speed while Starfield have a number of sprinting stallions, including Kuroshio (Aus), so I didn't think it made much sense to try and go into competition with them. Then Tosen Stardom cropped up and, obviously Saxon Warrior had just had a brilliant year with his 2-year-olds, so I thought a son of Deep Impact could be something different. Study Of Man has also been well-supported in England so it made a lot of sense.”

Wallace added, “I have been following sons of Sunday Silence for over 20 years, which obviously Deep Impact is, so I just said to myself, the pedigrees have become saturated over here in Ireland by sons of Green Desert, Danehill or Galileo (Ire), so why not try a new sire line. This fella seemed to fit the bill, a real good-looking horse who retired sound of limb and wind. As well as that, he raced as a 2-year-old right up to his 7-year-old campaign. Why not give him a chance?”

Lemongrove Stud may be new to the stallion ranks but Wallace is no novice. He spent time working at Water Cress Farm in America, where Cigar was based while he was there, spent time with his neighbours Tally-Ho, Rathbarry and has sold many good horses in his own right as well. 

Branching out into the Zenith Stallion Station at Lemongrove is by no means a step into the unknown and, given he is in the process of building a four-horse stallion barn, Wallace is hoping Tosen Stardom can be the first of many to stand at his burgeoning operation. 

Wallace said, “We're very happy with how things have gone so far with him. He went down well on the Irish Thoroughbred Stallion Trail. The fact that Tally-Ho weren't taking part in the Stallion Trail probably lessened our footfall but we'd plenty of interest, which was great. I had over 50 different groups call here on the Friday and Saturday and not many of them were tyre-kickers either. There are over 40 definites booked in to him in his first season which is positive. It's all about numbers so hopefully we can get a few more mares into him.

“I'm building a new four-box stallion barn because Hamad Al Kadfoor and Ali Farooq want to send another stallion next year and hopefully we can keep building it up. It would be nice to establish a stallion-standing stud.”

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Mill Farm Homebred Kita Wing Earns First Group Win at Nakayama

Kita Wing (Jpn) (Danon Ballade {Jpn}) found the class relief to her liking and successfully atoned for a 14th-place finish in the G1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies a month ago with a head victory in thrilling fashion in the G3 Fairy S. at Nakayama Monday. The 3-year-old filly previously captured a juvenile maiden event at Niigata last August before her successful stakes debut a week later.

It wasn't the smoothest of breaks for the filly–who last year captured the G3 Niigata Nisai S.–this time around, but it didn't matter as she was content to drop well back off the early pace set by My Reine (Logotype {Jpn}) for the first 200 metres and then Speed of Light (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}) for the next 600 metres, rating in front of just one rival until the far turn. As the leader and the chasing pack behind her rounded the bend, the winner was asked for run and while hugging the rail began picking off her tiring rivals one by one. At the top of the stretch she squeezed through the tightest of holes and took command within a dozen strides, pulling to a clear lead with victory in sight, only the storming Make a Snatch (Rulership {Jpn}) to worry about in the late stages.

Pedigree Notes

This Mill Farm homebred scored a fourth stakes win for the Deep Impact son Danon Ballade (Jpn), who has only 127 registered foals from five crops of racing age so far. His most notable win was in the 2012 G2 American Jockey Club Cup at Nakayama. Kita Wing is Kitano Ritsumei's second foal and first stakes winner, and is the only graded or group winner out of an I'll Have Another broodmare from 16 foals of racing age. Kitano Ritsumei, who is a half-sister to MSW & MGSP Stormy Sea (Jpn) (Admire Moon {Jpn}), also has a 2-year-old filly by Greater London (Jpn) and a yearling full sister to Kita Wing.

Monday, Nakayama, Japan
FAIRY S.-G3, ¥71,450,000, Nakayama, 1-19, 3yo, f, 1600mT, 1:34.30, fm.
1–KITA WING (JPN), 119, f, 3, by Danon Ballade (Jpn)
            1st Dam: Kitano Ritsumei (Jpn), by I'll Have Another
            2nd Dam: Liebestraume (Jpn), by Zenno El Cid (Ire)
            3rd Dam: Mount Mogami (Jpn), by Mogami (Fr)
   O/B-Mill Farm (Jpn); T-Shigeyuki Kojima; J-Makoto Sugihara;
¥37,595,000. Lifetime: 5-3-0-0, ¥75,280,000. Click for
   the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Werk Nick
   Rating: A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2--Make a Snatch (Jpn), 119, f, 3, Rulership (Jpn)–Snatch Mind
(Jpn), by Deep Impact (Jpn). 1ST BLACK TYPE. 1ST GROUP
   BLACK TYPE. O-Silk Racing; B-Shiraoi Farm (Jpn); ¥15,170,000.
3--Speed of Light (Jpn), 119, f, 3, Lord Kanaloa (Jpn)–Silent Sonic
(Jpn), by Deep Impact (Jpn). O-Hidaka Breeders Union;
B-Sakurai Farm (Jpn); ¥9,385,000.
Margins: HD, 1 3/4, HD. Odds: 34.80, 11.60, 10.30.
Also Ran: Brown Wave (Jpn), Roc Star (Jpn), Antano Ballade (Jpn), Mississippi Tesoro (Jpn), Iconostasis (Jpn), My Reine (Jpn), Dunato Selene (Jpn), Hip Hop Soul (Jpn), Mitama (Jpn), Chihaya (Jpn), Energy Chime (Jpn), Divertision (Jpn), Blue in Green (Jpn). Click for the JRA Chart.

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Light Quantum Latest Group Winner For Deep Impact at Chukyo

Light Quantum (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) remained perfect to graduate to the group ranks while taking on the boys for the first time with an impressive rallying victory in the G3 Nikkan Sports Sho Shinzan Kinen at Chukyo on Sunday.

The public's second choice at odds of 2-1 in this 1600-metre affair hopped a bit from the gate and was taken way back early, rating in front of just two rivals for more than 800 metres as Pace Setting (GB) (Showcasing {GB}) showed the way. As the early leader rounded the far bend, the winner began her rally and was swung wide into the stretch with more than a dozen lengths to close on the frontrunner. While racing out in the center of the course for clear running room she ran down all of her tiring rivals in the last 200 meters and pulled away for a length victory over a determined Pace Setting. Toho Galleon (Jpn) (Real Steel {Jpn}) was third another length back.

Pedigree Notes:

A front-running winner of a 1600-metre Tokyo newcomers' affair in November, Light Quantum is the first foal out of 2016 GI Gamely S. winner Illuminant (Quality Road), who also won the GII Monrovia S. in 2017 and sold for $1.1 million at Fasig-Tipton November to Shadai Farm later that year. Her dam has a yearling filly by American Horse of the Year Bricks And Mortar, and Illuminant was covered by Epiphaneia (Jpn) last year. Light Quantum is from the last crop of 11-time Japanese Champion Sire and Hall of Famer Deep Impact and his 154th group winner. Her granddam is the multiple stakes winner Sparkling Number (Polish Numbers), who herself is a half-sister to Smart Sunny (Smarten). Her third dam is the Grade III winner Sunny Sparkler (Sunny Clime).

Sunday, Chukyo, Japan                                                                                                              
NIKKAN SPORTS SHO SHINZAN KINEN-G3, ¥72,800,000, Chukyo, 1-8, 3yo, 1600mT, 1:33.70, fm.
1–LIGHT QUANTUM (JPN), 119, f, 3, by Deep Impact (Jpn)
            1st Dam: Illuminant (GISW, $536,243), by Quality Road
            2nd Dam: Sparkling Number, by Polish Numbers
            3rd Dam: Sunny Sparkler, by Sunny Clime
 1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN, 1ST GROUP WIN. O-Shadai Race Horse;
B-Shadai Farm (Jpn); T-Koshiro Take; J-Yutaka Take;
¥40,308,000. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, ¥47,308,000. Click for
   the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Werk Nick
   Rating: A+++. *Triple Plus*. Click for the
  eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Pace Setting (GB), 123, c, 3, Showcasing (GB)–Jet Setting
(Ire), by Fast Company (Ire). 1ST BLACK TYPE. 1ST GROUP
   BLACK TYPE. O-Silk Racing; B-Northern Farm (Jpn);
¥16,088,000.
3–Toho Galleon (Jpn), 123, c, 3, Real Steel (Jpn)–Devil's Corner,
by Songandaprayer. (¥86,000,000 yrl '21 JRHAJUL). 1ST BLACK
   TYPE, 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. O-Toho Inc.; B-Northern
Farm (Jpn); ¥10,044,000.
Margins: 1, 1, NK. Odds: 2.00, 4.40, 5.80.
Also Ran: Suzuka Double (Jpn), Sunrise Peace (Jpn), Shinzen Izumo (Jpn), Kvasir (Jpn). Click for the JRA Chart.

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Eleventh Japanese Title for Deep Impact

To a degree, when it comes to the Japanese sires' championship of 2022, one could resort to that old saying 'the more things change, the more they stay the same'. It holds good for now, as in the last three years the names filling the top three spots in the list have remained the same, in an unchanged order: Deep Impact (Jpn), Lord Kanaloa (Jpn), and Heart's Cry (Jpn).

But all things change eventually and, as we know, two of those stallions are no longer active, with Deep Impact gaining his last three championships posthumously. With his legend now fully appreciated worldwide, he was quick to make his mark in his home country after his retirement to the Shadai Stallion Station in 2007. The son of the hugely dominant Sunday Silence was Japan's champion first-season sire of 2010. He made his debut in the top 10 of the country's general sires' list the following year by finishing in fourth position when King Kamehameha (Jpn) was champion, but Deep Impact then wrested that title from his stud-mate in 2012 and has held it on an annual basis ever since.

The members of his final small crop of 14, conceived after covering 24 mares before his premature demise at the age of 17  in August 2019, are 3-year-olds this year. In Japan, where it is still considered desirable for the elite gallopers to race on as older horses, Deep Impact could maintain his supremacy for another year, but sooner or later his reign will come to an end. His stars of 2022 in Japan were the G1 Osaka Hai winner Potager (Jpn) and Ask Victor More (Jpn), who won the G1 Kikuka Sho (Japanese St Leger). He also featured as the broodmare sire of G1 Queen Elizabeth II Cup victrix Geraldina (Jpn), a daughter of Maurice (Jpn) and perhaps Deep Impact's crowning glory, Gentildonna (Jpn), the Fillies' Triple Crown, Japan Cup and Arima Kinen winner who was Japan's Horse of the Year in 2012 and 2014.

Farther afield, he was represented by G1 Australasian Oaks winner Glint Of Hope (Jpn), while the G1 Vertem Futurity Trophy winner Auguste Rodin (Ire) gives Deep Impact a great chance of further European Classic success this year.

The top-class sprinter/miler Lord Kanaloa, a son of the late King Kamehameha, looks a champion sire in the making with a growing international reputation. He was the approximate equivalent of only £163,000 shy of Deep Impact in progeny earnings from 276 winners last year, the best of them being G1 NHK Mile Cup winner Danon Scorpion (Jpn) and G1 Dubai Turf dead-heater Panthalassa (Jpn). Not too many of his offspring have made it to Europe yet, but a notable winner in Ireland last season was 'TDN Rising Star' Beginnings, a daughter of dual Guineas heroine Winter (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) who now has Classic aspirations of her own.

Heart's Cry was absent from the covering shed in 2022, having been pensioned at Shadai the previous June at the age of 20. A contemporary of Deep Impact, he finished runner-up to him in the freshman championship of 2010 and, despite always being in his shadow, has enjoyed a sterling career of his own.

Heart's Cry sired the 2022 Japanese Derby winner Do Deuce (Jpn) and his previous best performers around the world include Japan Cup winner Suave Richard (Jpn), Cox Plate winner Lys Gracieux (Jpn) and dual Grade 1 winner Yoshida (Jpn), who is now at WinStar Farm in Kentucky. In France this year, he was represented by the Aidan O'Brien-trained G3 Prix Thomas Bryon winner Continuous (Jpn), who is out of a full-sister to Maybe (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and thus bred on similar lines to Saxon Warrior (Jpn).

For the second year running Deep Impact's son Kizuna (Jpn), the second of his sire's Derby winners in 2013, was fourth in the general sires' table having been the leading first-season sire of 2019.

His highlight of the year came when Songline (Jpn) won the G1 Yasuda Kinen, having started 2022 with victory in the G3 1351 Turf Sprint at a Saudi Cup meeting which was dominated by Japanese runners. Kizuna's son Bathrat Leon (Jpn) won the G2 Godolphin Mile at Meydan the following month.

Duramente (Jpn), who sadly died after a bout of colitis in August 2021 at the age of just nine, looks an increasingly big loss to the Japanese ranks, having finished fifth in the table for 2022. Another son of King Kamehameha, and out of the dual Group 1 winner Admire Groove (Jpn) (Sunday Silence, Duramente was represented by the G1 Hopeful S. winner Dura Erede (Jpn) between Christmas and New Year, and his son Titleholder (Jpn) took last season's G1 Takarazuka Kinen having become a Classic winner the previous year in the Kikuka Sho. Another Classic winner came his way in 2022 in the form of the Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks) winner Stars On Earth (Jpn).

Having covered for just five seasons, Duramente leaves 725 registered offspring. His sire King Kamehameha was just behind him in sixth, and the influence of the former champion, who died in 2019, will start to wane in this table, though he will likely remain dominant through his daughters for a good while, and he was champion broodmare sire for 2022, ahead of Deep Impact, Kurofune (Jpn), and Sunday Silence.

The brilliant Triple Crown and dual Arima Kinen winner Orfevre (Jpn) managed a top-10 finish for the third year running from a personal best of fourth in 2020. On the international stage, he is best known for his 2021 GI Breeders' Cup Distaff winner Marche Lorraine (Jpn), one of his four Group/Grade 1 winners, including recent Tokyo Daishoten winner Ushba Tesoro (Jpn). That latest top-level winner came a day after he had notched a first Group I winner as a broodmare sire through the aforementioned Dura Ede.

Rulership (Jpn), too, is a perennial top-10 dweller and is the third of King Kamehameha's sons towards the top of the list. He appears to work well with mares by Sunday Silence and his sons–though they are not exactly in short supply–with all three of his Group 1 winners and 12 of his 16 group stakes winners having been bred on variations of this cross.

Maurice (Jpn), who spilt his six Group 1 wins equally between Japan and Hong Kong, has a similar record with his best runners. Having shuttled to Australia, he had two Group 1 winners there in 2022–Australian Derby winner Hitotsu (Aus) and Doomben 10,000 winner Mazu (Aus), along with two Group 1 winners in Japan. Arguably the most significant of these is Geraldina, the aforementioned daughter of Gentildonna.

Completing the top 10 is the veteran Daiwa Major (Jpn). The big success of 2022 for the 22-year-old son of Sunday Silence came through G1 Mile Championship winner Serifos (Jpn), giving Le Havre (Ire) a second top-level victory as broodmare sire, following his European strike in that category via Pyledriver (GB) (Harbour Watch {Ire}).

 

Biscuits Best Of The Youngsters

Three of the four leading first-season sires in Japan in 2022 were bred in America, though two of them, Shanghai Bobby in third and Declaration Of War in fourth, are only freshmen in Japanese terms, having started their careers in the US and Ireland before being exported.

Leading the group was Mind Your Biscuits, the dual G1 Golden Shaheen winner who also landed the GI Malibu S. and joined the Shadai Stallion Station upon retirement. From 76 runners last year, the son of Posse was represented by 28 winners, including the listed scorer Dermo Sotogake (Jpn) and the Group 2-placed Shomon (Jpn). Mind Your Biscuits is a great grandson of Deputy Minister, whose line has been ably represented in Japan, particularly by his son French Deputy and grandson Kurofune.

Of the homegrown young stallions in Japan, the G1 Dubai Turf winner Real Steel (Jpn) was best, finishing second behind Mind Your Biscuits with 21 winners from 67 starters but with an important Group 2 winner to his credit in All Parfait (Jpn). By Deep Impact, Real Steel owns a pedigree that will be all too familiar to breeders beyond Japan: his Niarchos-bred dam Loves Only Me (Storm Cat) has also produced Real Steel's treble Group/Grade 1-winning full-sister Loves Only You (Jpn). Their dam was unraced, but as a granddaughter of Miesque and half-sister to Group 1 winner Rumpelstiltskin (Ire) (Danehill), she was always going to be a valuable broodmare prospect and has already more than proved her worth at stud. Though the Niarchos family sold her for $900,000 to Katsumi Yoshida, their own support of Deep Impact through the same brilliant equine family was rewarded with a Classic winner in Study Of Man (Ire), who is out of Miesque's Storm Cat daughter Second Happiness and has his first-crop runners in Europe this year.

With this family also boasting Kingmambo, whose international influence stretches to Japan, largely through King Kamehameha, it is fair to expect to hear more of Real Steel and Study Of Man as the years progress.

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