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Notable US-Bred & -Sired Runners in Japan: Nov. 7, 2020

Saturday, November 7, 2020
5th-TOK, ¥13,400,000 ($129k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1600m
SCATTER SEED (JPN) (f, 2, Uncle Mo–Scatladybdancing, by Scat Daddy) is out of a stakes-placed full-sister to SW Ultima D that was purchased for $390K with this foal in utero at the 2017 Keeneland November Sale. The February foal’s third dam includes GSW Cat’s Career (Mr. Prospector) as well as Cat’s Eye Witness (Elusive Quality), the dam of Scat Daddy’s outstanding young sire son No Nay Never, who was second to the fast-finishing Bobby’s Kitten (Kitten’s Joy) in the 2014 GII Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Santa Anita. B-Oiwake Farm

6th-TOK, ¥13,400,000 ($129k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1300m
SATONO MUSTANG (c, 2, Mineshaft–Mare and Cher, by Old Fashioned), a $25K KEESEP acquisition, worked :10 flat from essentially a standing start and was hammered down for $150K at OBS March this past winter. A half-brother to SW Cruise and Danz (Street Boss), the dark bay is out of a half-sister to SW & GSP Fight On (Into Mischief) and his third dam includes MGSW Royal Haven (Hail Emperor) and GSW & GISP Belterra (Unbridled). Sheave (Mineshaft), a daughter of the latter, was responsible for GI Kentucky Oaks winner Cathryn Sophia (Street Boss). B-Haymarket Farm LLC (KY)

11th-TOK, Keio Hai Nisai S.-G2, ¥72m ($696k), 2yo, 1400mT
REFRAME (f, 2, American Pharoah–Careless Jewel, by Tapit) carries a mark of two-for-two and returns on just 13 days’ rest for her stakes debut Saturday. The $410K KEESEP yearling remarkably won her first career start July 25 despite drifting all the way to the outside, was given intensive retraining in the meantime, and resumed with an eye-catching five-length allowance success over this course and distance Oct. 25 (see below, gate 6). The daughter of the pensioned GI Alabama S. winner Careless Jewel is one of five fillies in the field of 18. B-Summer Wind Equine LLC (KY)

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Blended Citizen Retired

Sayjay Racing LLC’s, Greg Hall and Brooke Hubbard’s multiple graded stakes winner Blended Citizen (Proud Citizen–Langara Lass, by Langfuhr) has been retired from racing.

Bred by Ray Hanson, Blended Citizen is out of the multiple stakes-winning Langfuhr mare Langara Lass. The $85,000 OBS March graduate is a half-brother to the stakes-winning millionaire Lookin At Lee (Lookin At Lucky), runner-up in the 2017 GI Kentucky Derby.

Blended Citizen’s resume includes wins in the 2018 GIII Peter Pan S. and GIII Jeff Ruby Steaks and also a win in this year’s GIII Louisiana S. via disqualification. He retires with a record of 22-5-1-2 and earnings of $558,230.

A stud deal is pending for Blended Citizen. He’s catalogued as a stallion prospect in the upcoming Keeneland November auction with South Point Sales.

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Respite Farm Proves Small, But Mighty

Dr. Mike Cavey and his wife Dr. Nancy Temple have proven the old adage of quality over quantity. At their Respite Farm in Paris, Ky, the couple have been able to do a lot with a little, producing two champions and a Grade II-winning top young sire from a broodmare band of just seven. They will offer four weanlings from their boutique breeding operation at the upcoming Keeneland November Sale.

Cavey and Temple hit their first home run with a family they developed for five generations out of the first mare they ever purchased, Hot Slippers (Rollicking). Their patience and commitment to those bloodlines paid off as Hot Slippers is now the fourth dam of champion and top sire Uncle Mo.

Respite Farm sold the son of Indian Charlie for just $160,000 at Keeneland November and he took home an Eclipse Award after an undefeated juvenile season. Uncle Mo has proven equally talented since taking up stud duties at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud, producing fellow champion juvenile and GI Kentucky Derby hero Nyquist in his first crop, as well as Grade II winner Laoban.

Standing at Darley, Nyquist is the leading first-crop sire by black-type winners, producing two Grade I scorers in his initial crop. Laoban is number three on that list and also has a top-level winner already thanks to GI Darley Alcibiades S. victress Simply Ravishing. He started his career in New York at Becky Thomas’ Sequel New York, but will relocate to WinStar Farm in Kentucky for 2021.

“We’ve been lucky,” said Cavey, who also bred champion Champagne Room (Broken Row). “We were hoping Laoban would come back to Kentucky. We hope to be able to breed to him.”

Cavey and Temple have, of course, supported Uncle Mo at stud. For example, they bred the dam of Champagne Room, Lucky To Be Me (Bernstein), to the leading stallion and sold her to Japan’s Katsumi Yoshida for $1.25-million at the 2017 KEENOV sale.

“We’ve had five generations of Uncle Mo’s family and Champagne Room is the fourth generation of one of our families,” said Cavey, who also breeds cattle. “We bred Champagne Room’s dam to Uncle Mo, which combined both of our families. She went to Japan and her son broke his maiden this past weekend.”

In addition to breeding to Uncle Mo, Cavey and Temple have also supported his sons. In fact, one of their top prospects heading to the Keeneland November sale is a daughter of Nyquist.

Hip 943 is out of Cayman Sunrise (Petionville), who is a full-sister to MGSW Sailors Sunset and MSW Sailor’s Sister. She is also the dam of SP Empire Power (Bodemeister).

“We have a Nyquist who is exceptional,” Cavey said. “She is a really, really nice filly. She is a half to a Bodemeister stakes horse we bred and raised. She may be as good as anything I’ve ever bred.”

Cavey was equally enthusiastic about Hip 1572, a daughter of Liam’s Map. She is out of the Giant’s Causeway mare Rooms, who is a half to SW Congo Kaye (Congaree) and GSP Westwood Pride (Pleasantly Perfect).

“We also have a Liam’s Map filly out of a Giant’s Causeway mare we bought as a broodmare prospect,” Cavey said. “It is a toss up as to which of those is the best. Sounds crazy, but I’d put either one of them up against Champagne Room, Uncle Mo or anything I’ve ever bred.”

Respite Farm’s Keeneland November contingent also includes a Cairo Prince filly from the family of Champagne Room (Hip 1785) and Cross Traffic filly (Hip 3046) out of the Uncle Mo mare Jessica Clay.

The Keeneland November Sale kicks off Sunday, Nov. 9.

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Notable US-Bred & -Sired Runners in Japan: Oct. 31, 2020

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 Saturday running at Kyoto and Tokyo Racecourses. Former Horse of the Year Almond Eye (Jpn) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}) makes her first start since June in defense of her title in the G1 Tenno Sho (Autumn), a race connections will use as a springboard to potential targets at home and/or abroad over the next six weeks:

Saturday, October 31, 2020
5th-KYO, ¥13,400,000 ($128k), Newcomers, 2yo, 2000mT
VICTORION (JPN) (c, 2, Uncle Mo–Easter Island, by Giant’s Causeway) is the first foal for his dam, an unraced daughter of GISW Awesome Maria (Maria’s Mon), who was purchased for $350K carrying this foal in utero at the 2017 Keeneland November Sale. Victorion, whose female family includes Grade I winners Discreet Cat and Discreetly Mine, was purchased for ¥20 million ($180,400) as a foal at th 2018 JRHA Select Sale and his yearling half-sister by successful young sire Duramente (Jpn) made ¥22 million ($206,785) at the Hokkaido Summer Yearling Sale this past August. Easter Island also has a weanling colt by Orfevre (Jpn). B-Hidaka Taiyo Bokujo

6th-TOK, ¥13,400,000 ($128k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1600m
AMERICAN YELL (c, 2, Tapit–Sindy With an S, by Broken Vow), a $700K KEESEP purchase, is out of a Grade III-winning dam who has already worked well with this sire, producing SW & GSP My Miss Tapit and the GSP duo I’ll Wrap It Up and Rattataptap. Owner Katsumi Yoshizawa, who campaigned Master Fencer (Jpn) (Just A Way {Jpn}) in the 2019 Triple Crown, also races SP American Seed (Tapit), who aired by seven lengths in his first start on dirt last weekend. B-Gainesway Thoroughbreds Ltd (KY)

ANNUNCIATION (c, 2, Union Rags–Acquant, by Giant’s Causeway) is the first produce for his three-time winning dam, a daughter of dual Grade III winner Social Queen (Dynaformer), whose son Force The Pass (Speightstown) took out the 2015 GI Belmont Derby Invitational S. A $230K KEESEP acquisition, the chestnut is a half-brother to an Arrogate colt that was bought back for $425K at KEESEP last month and a weanling colt by Mastery. B-Colts Neck Stables LLC (KY)

NIGHT FROLIC (c, 2, Into Mischief-Frolic’s Revenge, by Vindication) is out of a five-time stakes winner that has already been responsible for SW American Frolic (Blame) and SP Mc Awesome (Super Saver). The April foal’s MSW second dam Stormy Frolic (Summer Squall) was a daughter of GSW Lindsay Frolic (Mt. Livermore), whose 10 winners from 12 to race included GSW/MGISP Super Frolic (Pine Bluff). Night Frolic cost $300K at KEESEP. B-Woodford Thoroughbreds (KY)

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