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Weep No More Filly Debuts at Nakayama

In this continuing series, Alan Carasso takes 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 weekend running at Chukyo, Nakayama and Hanshin Racecourses. Juvenile Fillies got their chance at Group 1 glory last weekend and it's the boys' turn this weekend at Hanshin, with the running of the G1 Asahi Hai Futurity:

Saturday, December 17, 2022
5th-CKO, ¥13,400,000, Newcomers, 2yo, 1800m
REGNUM (c, 2, American Pharoah–Big Meesh {Ire}, by High Chaparral {Ire}) was a $170,000 purchase out of the 2020 Keeneland November Sale and was bought back on a bid of $265,000 at KEESEP before fetching $340,000 as an OBS April breezer this past spring (:9 4/5). The colt's dam, a half-sister to MGSW turf distaffer Noble Stella (Ger) (Monsun {Ger}), was acquired by Grantley Acres with Regnum in utero for $250,000 at the 2019 KEENOV sale. B-Grantley Acres & Ryan Conner (KY)

6th-NKY, ¥13,400,000, Newcomers, 2yo, 1800m
KEEP SMILING (JPN) (f, 2, Quality Road–Weep No More, by Mineshaft) is the second foal from her dam, upset winner of the 2016 GI Ashland S. at Keeneland and who produced $400,000 KEESEP grad War Classic (War Front) before being acquired privately by Northern Farm and bred to this successful stallion prior to her export. Weep No More, a half-sister to GSW Current (Curlin) and to the dam of the SW & GSP Half Is Enough (Frosted), is also responsible for a colt by the late Duramente (Jpn) that fetched better than $735,000 as a yearling at this year's JRHA Select Sale. The filly's third dam is 2001 GI Kentucky Oaks victress Flute (Seattle Slew). B-Northern Farm

Sunday, December 18, 2022
11th-HSN, Asahi Hai Futurity-G1, ¥136m, 2yo, 1600mT
FROM DUSK (c, 2, Bolt d'Oro–Foolish Cause, by Giant's Causeway) realized a bid of $200,000 at last year's KEESEP sale before blossoming into a $900,000 OBS March juvenile. A fighting debut winner at Kokura Sept. 3, he was compromised by a slow start first time against winners Sept. 24, but made the majority of the running when last seen in the G2 Keio Hai Nisai S. over seven furlongs and was caught in the dying yards (see below, SC 7). Yutaka Take takes the ride on the colt, whose dam is a half-sister to the treble Grade I-winning turfer Get Stormy (Stormy Atlantic). B-Springhouse Farm (KY)

 

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First-Timers Can Aid Justify In Freshman Sire Battle

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 weekend running at Hanshin and Nakayama Racecourses. While much of the local focus will be on the 14 runners entered across the four races that comprise the Longines Hong Kong International Races, Sunday's action at home includes the G1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies:

Saturday, December 10, 2022
6th-NKY, ¥13,400,000 ($98k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1800m
LAP STAR (c, 2, Justify–Guest Suite, by Ghostapper) looks to give his first-crop sire (by Scat Daddy) a winner on the competitive JRA circuit for the third week running. A $400,000 Keeneland September acquisition by trainer Hideyuki Mori on behalf of owner Susumu Fujita, the Feb. 5 foal is a half-brother to GIII Lecomte S. winner Guest House (Quality Road). The dark bay colt is out of a winning daughter of Grade III winner Welcome Surprise (Seeking the Gold), who sadly passed away this year, and the third dam includes the likes of A.P. Indy, Summer Squall and Court Vision. This is also the family of this year's GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies third Raging Sea (Curlin). B-Hartmut H Malluche & Silesia Farm (KY)

Sunday, December 11, 2022
4th-HSN, ¥13,400,000 ($98k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1800m
DONA SWEAT (f, 2, Justify–No Sweat, by Blame) is the first foal out of her twice stakes-placed dam, who was purchased by Ashview Farm for $300,000 at the 2018 Keeneland November sale before visiting this stallion for her first covering. A $425,000 graduate of last year's KEESEP sale, Dona Sweat is a granddaughter of MSW & MGSP Coolwind (Forest Wildcat), herself the dam of GIII Iowa Derby winner Looking Cool (Candy Ride {Arg}). The filly's third dam is Grade III heroine Scoop (Gone West). B-Ashview Farm & Colts Neck Stables (KY)

11th-HSN, HSN Juvenile Fillies-G1, ¥123m ($903k), 2yo, f, 1600mT
AIM IN LIFE (f, 2, Kitten's Joy–Elisheva, by Smart Strike) debuted victoriously over course and distance Oct. 15 (video, SC 2) and gave a solid account of herself when sixth facing winners for the first time Nov. 27. The North Hills homebred is the first produce from her dam, a daughter of champion Believe (Jpn) (Sunday Silence), whose G1 Sprinters' S.-winning son Gendarme (Kitten's Joy) breaks from the eight hole in Sunday's G1 Longines Hong Kong Sprint. Believe is also responsible for MSW & G1SP Faridat (Kingmambo) and SW/GSP Fiducia (Medaglia d'Oro). B-North Hills Co Limited (KY)

 

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Van Vista Looks To Keep Justify On a Roll in Japan

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 weekend–all fillies–running at Hanshin and Nakayama Racecourses. The third of the JRA track hosting racing this weekend is Chuyko, which stages the Champions Cup (formerly Japan Cup Dirt), one of just three Group 1 races on the dirt in Japan each season:

Saturday, December 3, 2022
6th-NKY, ¥13,400,000 ($100k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1200m
LAPIS PYRITE (f, 2, American Pharoah–Asscher, by Harlan's Holiday) is the first foal to the races for her winning dam, a half-sister to the late three-time Grade I-winning sprinter Lord Nelson (Pulpit). Purchased for $90,000 out of last year's Keeneland September Sale, the Mar. 27 foal is a great-granddaughter of Miss Linda (Arg) (Southern Halo), the 2000 G1 Argentine Oaks winner and that year's champion 3-year-old filly and later the upset winner in this country of the GI Overbrook Spinster S. B-Clearsky Farms (KY)

Sunday, December 4, 2022
5th-HSN, ¥13,400,000 ($100k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1800mT
VAN VISTA (f, 2, Justify–Vanquished, by Empire Maker) was bought back on a bid of $285,000 when offered at the 2020 Keeneland November Sale, but was hammered down to J S Company for $525,000 at KEESEP last fall. The March foal is a half-sister to treble turf graded winner Takeover Target (Harlan's Holiday) and SW Ladies' Privilege (Harlan's Holiday) and her dam is a half-sister to two-time Grade I winner Critical Eye (Dynaformer). Forging Oaks Farm acquired Vanquished for $475,000 in foal to Candy Ride (Arg) at KEENOV in 2017, sold four foals from her that brought over $1.9 million combined and parted ways with the mare for $450,000 carrying to Into Mischief at the 2021 KEENOV sale. B-Forging Oaks Farm (KY)

 

 

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No Cause For Alarm As Gendarme Wins The Sprinters S.

Koji Maeda's Gendarme (Kitten's Joy) earned a new career high with a neck victory in Nakayama's 1200-metre G1 Sprinters S. on Sunday. The 7-year-old entire captured the race 20 years after his dam, Believe (Jpn) (Sunday Silence), who has thrown a trio of stakes winners including Gendarme.

Sent off at 19-1, the eighth choice in the field of 16, the dark bay argued the early pace, but drifted back to stalk from third on the backstretch as T M Spada (Jpn) (Red Spada {Jpn}) set a harried tempo under pressure from First Force (Jpn) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}). Rolling up in between that pair on the corner, Gendarme cruised into contention and took up the baton shortly before the 200-metre mark. Quickly opening up two lengths, he kept finding as Win Marvel (Jpn) (I'll Have Another) and Naran Huleg (Jpn) (Gold Allure {Jpn}) unleashed furious late rallies, but it was too little too late. Only three-quarters of a length separated the latter duo for second, and third, respectively.

“We had a good gate and were able to race smoothly as he handled the break smoothly, which was a challenge for him,” said Kiwamu Ogino, who was winning his first Group 1 race and second group race in his career. “The horse responded well in the stretch and I think he was able to show his strength. I was aware of the closing horses behind us but I just concentrated on letting the horse do his best. I'm really happy that I was able to win my first Group 1 title and I'm grateful for Gendarme.”

A winner at Group 2 level and second in the G1 Hopeful S. as a juvenile, Gendarme won the G3 Ocean S. three starts back over course-and-distance in March. Unplaced to Naran Huleg in the G1 Takamatsunomiya Kinen later that month, he was 17th in the G3 Kitakyushu Kinen at Kokura on Aug. 21.

 

Pedigree Notes

Gendarme becomes the 16th Group 1 winner for his late sire Kitten's Joy with Sunday's victory. He is also the seventh and final foal, seventh runner, and sixth winner for the 2003 Japanese Champion Older Mare Believe. A winner of the 2002 edition of the Sprinter S. when it was run under listed conditions, she was also Group 2-placed and earned north of $3.8 million. Her first foal, the 2005 Kingmambo horse Faridat, was a dual listed winner in Japan, and he would ultimately place five times at group level, including a third in the G1 Yasuda Kinen. Believe hit black-type pay dirt once again with her fifth foal, the 2012 Medaglia d'Oro filly Fiducia, who won the Listed Shunrai S. and was second in the G3 Ibis Summer Dash.

From the family of 1986 U.S. Horse of the Year Lady's Secret (Secretariat), Gendarme is not the only descendant of third dam and multiple stakes winner Great Lady M. (Icecapade) to thrive in the Land of the Rising Sun, with no less than eight others earning a black-type win. Anchoring that octet is Japanese Champion 2-Year-Old Filly Circle Of Life (Jpn) (Epiphaneia {Jpn}), who won the G1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies. American champion Shamrock Rose (First Dude), a winner of the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint, is also related to Gendarme.

 
Sunday, Nakayama, Japan
SPRINTERS S.-G1, ¥328,800,000, Nakayama, 10-2, 3yo/up, 1200mT, 1:07.80, fm.
1–GENDARME, 126, h, 7, by Kitten's Joy
                 1st Dam: Believe (Jpn) (Ch. Older Mare-Jpn, MSW &
                                GSP-Jpn, $3,836,758), by Sunday Silence
                 2nd Dam: Great Christine, by Danzig
                 3rd Dam: Great Lady M., by Icecapade
1ST GROUP 1 WIN. O-Koji Maeda; B-North Hills Co. Limited
(KY); T-Yasutoshi Ikee; J-Kiwamu Ogino. ¥173,360,000.
Lifetime Record: 29-7-1-3. Click for the
   free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Werk Nick
   Rating: B. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Win Marvel (Jpn), 121, c, 3, I'll Have Another–Cosmo
Marvelous (Jpn), by Fuji Kiseki (Jpn). 1ST GROUP 1 BLACK
   TYPE. O-Win Inc.; B-Cosmo View Farm (Jpn); ¥68,960,000.
3–Naran Huleg (Jpn), 126, h, 6, Gold Allure (Jpn)–Kelley's
Beauty (Jpn), by Brian's Time. O-Katsushige Muraki; B-Setsuko
Sakato (Jpn); ¥43,480,000.
Margins: NK, 3/4, NK. Odds: 19.30, 19.00, 17.60.
Also Ran: Diatonic (Jpn), Namura Clair (Jpn), Eighteen Girl (Jpn), Travesura (Jpn), Maria's Heart, Schnell Meister (Ger), First Force (Jpn), Vento Voce (Jpn), Meisho Mimosa (Jpn), Taisei Vision (Jpn), Mikki Yell (Jpn), T M Spada (Jpn), Loving Answer (Jpn).
Click for the JRA chart & video.

 

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