The third betting choice at 29-10, the son of 2016 GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf runner-up Coasted (Tizway) raced in about mid-division and was kept out of harm's way by Kohei Matsuyama as Be Astonished (Jpn) (American Patriot) galloped them along over turf that was listed as good, but appeared to have a fair bit of juice in it on a rainy afternoon. Creeping into contention wide on the course with 600 metres to travel, Danon Beluga came after the pacesetter in earnest at the furlong grounds and finished with good energy to score comfortably. Geoglyph, victorious at Group 3 level last year, ran on for second.

Pedigree Notes:

Katsumi Yoshida acquired former Jeff Treadway colorbearer Coasted for $1.3 million at the 2017 Fasig-Tipton November Sale and foaled this colt Feb. 7, 2019. A little more than five months later, Danon Beluga was hammered down to this prominent owner for the equivalent of $1,472,000 at the JRHA Select Sale in Hokkaido. Coasted is herself a daughter of MGSW/GISP Malibu Pier, who is also responsible for Coasted's MGSP year-older full-sister Malibu Stacy. Treadway also sold three-time Grade I winner Sweet Reason (Street Sense) to Yoshida for $2.7 million at FTKNOV in 2015.

Coasted is represented by a 2-year-old filly by the late Duramente (Jpn) (King Kamehameha {Jpn}), a yearling filly by Daiwa Major (Jpn) (Sunday Silence) and is due to Kizuna (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) this season.

Sunday, Tokyo, Japan
KYODO NEWS SERVICE HAI-G3, ¥ 76,590,000, Tokyo, 2-13, 3yo, 1800mT, 1:47.90, gd.
1–DANON BELUGA (JPN), 123, c, 3, by Heart's Cry (Jpn)
1st Dam: Coasted (SW & GISP-US, $366,066), by Tizway
2nd Dam: Malibu Pier, by Malibu Moon
3rd Dam: Blue Moon (Fr), by Lomitas (GB)
1ST STAKES WIN. 1ST GROUP WIN. (¥160,000,000 Wlg '19
JRHAJUL). O-Danox Inc; B-Northern Farm; T-Noriyuki Hori;
J-Kohei Matsuyama; ¥38,427,000. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0,
¥45,427,000. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
Werk Nick Rating: F.
2–Geoglyph (Jpn), 126, c, 3, Drefong–Aromatico (Jpn), by King
Kamehameha (Jpn). O-Sunday Racing; B-Northern Farm;
¥16,118,000.
3–Be Astonished (Jpn), 123, c, 3, American Patriot–Mao Rio
(Jpn), by Neo Universe (Jpn). O-Toru Muranaka; B-Versailles
Farm; ¥10,059,000.
Margins: 1HF, 1HF, 3/4. Odds: 2.90, 2.40, 28.90.
Click for the JRA chart or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

REPLAY: Danon Beluga (#10) powers home at headquarters

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Among those highs were a handful that carried the Treadway banner to the Breeders' Cup World Championships. But if everything goes according to plan on Nov. 5, that number could rise by one thanks to a new budding talent — and Treadway homebred — named Sail By.

A daughter of Australian stallion Astern (AUS), Sail By punched her ticket to this year's Breeders' Cup at Del Mar when she ran to her name Oct. 2 in the Grade 3 Miss Grillo Stakes at Belmont Park. The victory was the first stakes win for Sail By, who has never been off the board in her four career starts.

“It was a race that obviously had some good horses in there with very good numbers and speed numbers, but I felt confident with my filly because she tries every time and she's versatile,” said Gyarmati. “She can close and I told [jockey] Junior [Alvarado] to play the break and I think obviously he did a great job with that. She's a really honest horse and she will do what you ask her to do.

“She's not one of those horses that has to be one thing or the other. When they start going really fast, she'll settle and run at the end. She has a great burst of speed. I was surprised with the speed she's shown. When the pace is slow, she'll get up there and be right there.”

A native of Forest Hills, N.Y., Gyarmati got her start at the racetrack when she was a teenager, working a summer job as an exercise rider for Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkens. She would eventually go on to work for Jerkens and his son, Jimmy, before taking a break to pursue a brief career as a jockey in the mid-1990s.

Photo courtesy Leah Gyarmati

Breaking out on her own on the training circuit in 1998, Gyarmati sent out her first winner one year later in the form of Flippy Diane, who took the 1999 Maryland Million Distaff at Laurel Park. Her relationship with Treadway would follow years later through the help of a mutual friend, who introduced the two.

“I met Jeff through a friend who is an owner in New Jersey,” said Gyarmati. “Jeff had a piece of a horse there and he wanted to race in New York, so she introduced us. We started feeling it out and he's a super smart guy who follows the whole industry and really studies it.”

Gyarmati bought her first 2-year-old for Treadway at the 2009 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale for $90,000. Named Thunder Chief, the New York-bred son of Thunder Gulch was a consistent runner throughout his career and remains a central part of Gyarmati's barn to this day as her working stable pony.

Through the years the pair have shared several successes, mainly with fillies. Their best performer to date was Sweet Reason (by Street Sense), who won the G1 Spinaway Stakes, G1 Acorn Stakes, and G1 Test Stakes, and placed fourth in the 2014 G1 Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint. Consigned to the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Mixed Sale in 2015, the mare commanded $2.7 million from Katsumi Yoshida, and has gone on to an equally strong career as a broodmare.

Gyarmati credits the mare's racing career as one of the catalysts to Darley bringing stallion Street Sense back to stand in the United States.

“She was the best horse I've had for Jeff,” said Gyarmati. “She won the Test, the Acorn, and the Spinaway. She was the best filly I ever claimed, and she was actually responsible for Street Sense coming back to the United States. They wanted him back, but they needed one really good horse to jump start it and when she won the Spinaway, Darley jumped on it, and it really worked out.”

Sweet Reason's successes aside, Treadway and Gyarmati are no strangers to the pressures of the Breeders' Cup. The pair hit the board in the World Championships in 2014 with Wonder Gal, who ran third in the G1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies and again in 2016 when Coasted ran second in the G1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.

“We've had some really great horses like Noble Moon and Strike Midnight and Sweet Reason who were all stakes winners,” said Gyarmati. “We've done very, very well through the years. We've had good success together which I'm thankful for because Jeff is very sharp about buying and breeding horses. It's a learning process so when you move from one part of the business to another it can be tricky. He's been a great friend.”

Part of the Breeders' Cup “Win and You're In” Challenge Series, the Miss Grillo offers Sail By, Treadway, and Gyarmati a paid berth to this year's renewal of the Juvenile Fillies Turf. While her filly has yet to make a trip to the West Coast, Gyarmati has wasted no time booking her filly on an upcoming flight.

“That is the plan — God willing,” said Gyarmati. “Of course, man plans, and God laughs. That's how that works. We've got plane reservations so we will see how it goes. I'm hoping she will ship well but she's never been on a plane. She's done well so far, and I think she handles everything that we've thrown at her very well. She's super cool and I think that demeanor is an advantage. She's very intelligent so I think we're good.”

At the moment, Sail By is the only horse in Gyarmati's barn to carry the Treadway banner. The trainer said that likely won't change until next year, when another daughter of Astern will arrive after being turned out for the season. For now, their hopes hang on Sail By and the promise of another shot at a world title.

“It's an up and down business for pretty much everybody,” said Gyarmati. “You have great years and some not-so-great years, but you keep plugging away and something good happens and you're on the right track again. You just have to keep at it and never give up, and most importantly pay attention.”

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Away alertly from the inside gate, Sail By conceded the lead to rank outsider Charlee O (Tourist), who enjoyed a soft time of it up front through an opening half-mile in :49.40. Stablemates and market leaders McKulick (GB) (Frankel {GB}) and Kinchen (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) were content to linger behind midfield, saving their best for last. The pacesetter still had things very much her own way after six furlongs in 1:14.36, but Junior Alvarado had Sail By set to strike and they pounced on the leader a furlong down before sprinting home best. Kinchen and McKulick were simply left too much to do given the shape of the race, but kicked home their final two furlongs in :22.11 and :21.88, respectively per Trakus, in efforts that can easily be upgraded.

“It wasn't a plan [to be forward today], but I'm glad he [Junior Alvarado] did things just as he did,” said winning trainer Leah Gyarmati. “He let her break and she broke really well and the other horse went which was perfect because it got her to settle.”

Sail By was the most 'experienced' of the Miss Grillo entrants, having broken her maiden at first asking–just as her dam had done–at 28-1 going six furlongs over this course June 18. A sound second in the Aug. 1 Colleen S. going a sharper five-furlong trip, Sail By was a latest pacesetting third to Miss Interpret (Street Sense) in the off-turf P.G. Johnson S. at Saratoga Sept. 2.

As for a trip to Del Mar, the conditioner added: “Any time you're even thinking about having that kind of opportunity is wonderful. I'll have to talk to Jeff [Treadway, owner-breeder], but I'm sure he is game and wants to go. That's a conversation we'll have to have.”

Pedigree Notes:

Sail By is the first North American graded winner and third black-type winner overall for her sire (by Medaglia d'Oro) and is set to become the sixth Breeders' Cup starter for Treadway, who sent out Johnson winner and Miss Grillo third Coasted (Tizway) to finish a bang-up second to New Money Honey (Medaglia d'Oro) in the 2016 GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies' Turf. Sail By is the first foal from her dam, who is also responsible for a yearling full-brother to Sail By and a colt foal by Oscar Performance.

Saturday, Belmont Park
MISS GRILLO S.-GII, $200,000, Belmont, 10-2, 2yo, f, 1 1/16mT, 1:43.21, fm.
1–SAIL BY, 120, f, 2, by Astern (Aus)
                1st Dam: Fly By, by Johar
                2nd Dam: Flying Arch, by Arch
                3rd Dam: Proud Tradition, by Seeking the Gold
   1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. O-Treadway
Racing Stable; B-Jeff Treadway (KY); T-Leah Gyarmati; J-Junior
Alvarado. $110,000. Lifetime Record: 4-2-1-1, $193,900.
Werk Nick Rating: B. Click for the
eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Kinchen (Ire), 118, f, 2, Lope de Vega (Ire)–Miss Nouriya (GB),
by Galileo (Ire). O-e Five Racing Thoroughbreds; B-Fifth
Avenue Bloodstock (IRE); T-Chad C. Brown. $40,000.
3–McKulick (GB), 120, f, 2, Frankel (GB)–Astrelle (Ire), by Makfi
(GB). (180,000gns Ylg '20 TATOCT). O-Klaravich Stables, Inc.;
B-Essafinaat UK Ltd (GB); T-Chad C. Brown. $24,000.
Margins: 1, HD, 1 3/4. Odds: 12.30, 3.55, 0.45.
Also Ran: Philly Eagles (Ire), Hail To, Charlee O.
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