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Notable US-Bred Runners in Japan: Nov. 28 & 29, 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 weekend running at Hanshin and Tokyo Racecourses. Headquarters plays host to a G1 Japan Cup for the ages with Almond Eye (Jpn) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}) against undefeated Triple Crown winners Contrail (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) and Daring Tact (Jpn) (Epiphaneia {Jpn}) Sunday, and the first race on the Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby, the Cattleya S. (allowance), Saturday:

Saturday, November 28, 2020
1st-HSN, ¥9,680,000 ($93k), Maiden, 2yo, 1800m
FRANCE GO DE INA (c, 2, Will Take Charge–Dreamy Blues, by Curlin) stretches out to a route of ground for the first time, having debuted with a sound fourth-place effort behind Lemon Pop (Lemon Drop Kid, see below) in a newcomers’ event over 1300 meters at this venue Nov. 7 (gate 14). A $100K Keeneland September purchase, the Mar. 1 foal is out of a half-sister to GSW Shawklit Mint (Air Forbes Won), while MGSW Crafty Shaw (Crafty Prospector) appears under his third dam. B-Betz, Kidder, B & K Canetti, Jim Betz (KY)

9th-TOK, Cattleya S. (Alw), ¥30,400,000 ($291k), 3yo, 1600m
LEMON POP (c, 2, Lemon Drop Kid–Unreachable, by Giant’s Causeway) looks to build on a three-length debut success in the aforementioned newcomers’ test going three-sixteenths of a mile shorter three weekends ago (see below, gate 10) in this first of four races on the Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby. The Godolphin colorbearer, a $70K acquisition out of last year’s KEESEP sale, was produced by an unraced daughter of five-time GSW Harpia (Danzig), a full-sister to the legendary Danehill, MGSW Shibboleth and GSW Eagle Eyed. Another full-sister to Harpia–Family–bred European GSW, Hong Kong SW and UAE Group 3-placed Dundonnell (First Defence). B-Mr & Mrs Oliver S Tait (KY)

Sunday, November 29, 2020
6th-HSN, ¥13,400,000 ($128k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1400mT
PREFERRED RUN (f, 2, Mshawish–Little Miss Muffet, by Scat Daddy) is set to become the fourth foal to race from her dam, a half-sister to MSP Emma Darling (Hennessy) who has also accounted for connections’ Lotus Land (Point of Entry), a debut winner at two who ran future G1SW Lauda Sion (Jpn) (Real Impact {Jpn}) to a neck in her second career start and just missed when last seen on the track in May. This is the extended female family of US champion juvenile colt Brocco (Kris S.). B-Winchester Farm

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Notable US-Bred Runners in Japan: Oct. 25, 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 Sunday running at Tokyo and Kyoto Racecourse, the latter of which plays host to the G1 Kikuka Sho (Japanese St Leger), where the uber-talented Contrail (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) looks to follow in his sire’s footsteps in completing the Triple Crown:

Sunday, October 25, 2020
3rd-TOK, ¥13,400,000 ($128k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1300m
MOZU HAPPY ROAD (c, 2, Medaglia d’Oro–Overheard, by Macho Uno) is the latest produce from his dam, who won the GIII Valley View S. sponsored by this breeder in 2013 and the GII Dance Smartly S. the following season. A $425K Keeneland September graduate, the April foal hails from family of Pin Oak’s Grade I-winning juvenile filly Confessional, who–like this colt’s dam sire–was by Holy Bull. B-Pin Oak Stud LLC (KY)

5th-TOK, ¥13,830,000 ($132k), Allowance, 2yo, 1400mT
REFRAME (f, 2, American Pharoah–Careless Jewel, by Tapit) turned in one of the more memorable debuts in recent memory, holding on by a desperate half-length after drifting out dramatically to the outside fence at Niigata July 25 (see below, gate 15). The $410K KEESEP yearling, a daughter of the single-minded GI Alabama S. romper Careless Jewel, has undergone rigorous retraining since and Takuya Kowata, who miraculously stayed in the saddle on debut, keeps the ride this weekend. B-Summer Wind Equine LLC (KY)

5th-KYO, ¥13,400,000 ($128k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1800mT
MOZU TREASURE (f, 2, California Chrome–Somethinaboutbetty, by Forestry), whose Maryland-bred dam was a four-time stakes winner and second in the GIII Lake George S., cost $200K as a KEESEP yearling and is a half-sister to GSP Dewey Square (Bernardini) from the same A.P. Indy sire line, as well as SP Something Super (Super Saver). This is also the female family of MGSW Eskenformoney (Eskendereya) and GISW My Trusty Cat (Tale of the Cat). B-Siena Farms LLC (KY)

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Notable US-Bred & -Sired Runners in Japan: Oct. 17 & 18, 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 weekend running at Niigata and Kyoto Racecourses, the latter of which plays host to Sunday’s G1 Shuka Sho, the final leg of the Japanese Triple Tiara. Daring Tact (Jpn) (Epiphaneia {Jpn}) will go favored to become the sixth to complete the sweep, joining the likes of Gentildonna (Jpn) and Almond Eye (Jpn), but would be the first to do so undefeated. Daughters of US Grade I winners Ria Antonia and Hilda’s Passion will try to play the role of spoiler:

Saturday, October 17, 2020
4th-KYO, ¥13,400,000 ($127k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1400m
LUCKY MO (JPN) (c, 2, Uncle Mo–Lucky to Be Me, by Bernstein) is a half-brother to 2016 GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies winner Champagne Room (Broken Vow) and was purchased in utero for $1.25m at the Keeneland November sale in 2017. Bred on the same cross over Storm Cat as champion and GI Kentucky Derby hero Nyquist, Lucky Mo is also a half-brother to a colt by Yoshida (Jpn)’s sire Heart’s Cry (Jpn) that fetched ¥190m ($1,775,701), the joint sixth-highest price at this year’s JRHA Select Yearling Sale. B-Northern Farm

5th-NII, ¥13,400,000 ($127k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1400mT
MOON BEAD (JPN) (f, 2, American Pharoah–Evening Jewel, by Northern Afleet) is the first Japanese-foaled produce for her dam, winner of the GI Ashland S. on the Polytrack and the GI Del Mar Oaks on turf and the unluckiest of losers in the GI Kentucky Oaks in 2010. The dam of the SP Bernardiva (Bernardini), Evening Jewel was sold for $950K in foal to Pioneerof the Nile at KEENOV in 2016 and was covered by this sire in Kentucky prior to her export. Evening Jewel is the dam of a yearling colt by Deep Impact (Jpn). B-Shadai Farm

Sunday, October 18, 2020
12th-NII, ¥28,600,000 ($271k), Allowance, 3yo/up, 1200m
PRIMO D’ARC (f, 3, Bernardini–Wilshewed, by Carson City) enters this test with a tidy record of 2-2-0 from five starts, including a front-running, 2 1/2-length victory going this distance in the mud at Hanshin June 14 (see below, gate 1). A half-sister to GISW Stormello (Stormy Atlantic) and GSW My Best Brother (Stormy Atlantic); a full-sister to SW & GISP ‘TDN Rising Star’ Cherry Lodge and GSW Gala Award; and a half to the dam of 2019 Sovereign Award winner Curlin’s Voyage (Curlin), Primo d’Arc was a $400K KEESEP yearling and $500K OBS April breezer. Her 2-year-old half-sister Jacquelyn d’Oro (Medaglia d’Oro), who RNAd for $450K at KEESEP and for $245K at OBS in June, breezed a half-mile in :49 (9/25) at Keeneland Oct. 14. B-Estate of William L Currin (KY)

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Notable US-Bred Runners in Japan: Oct. 10, 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. With plenty of US-bred activity ahead, here are the horses of interest for this Saturday running at Kyoto and Tokyo Racecourses, featuring the return to the races of the very exciting 3-year-old filly Lecce Baroque. Sunday’s entrants will appear in Saturday’s TDN:

Saturday, October 10, 2020
4th-TOK, ¥13,400,000 ($126k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1600m
TAPITAIL (f, 2, Tapit–Lady of Fifty, by After Market) is the most recent produce for her dam, winner of the GI Clement L. Hirsch S. on synthetic and a stakes winner and Grade II placed on conventional dirt. A $975K buyback in foal to this sire at Fasig-Tipton November in 2014, Lady of Fifty was acquired by Teruya Yoshida in 2017 and produced this filly in Kentucky before being sent overseas. The mare was not represented by a foal in 2019 and her weanling colt by Heart’s Cry (Jpn) was purchased for ¥36m ($335,538) at this year’s JRHA Select Sale. B-Teruya Yoshida (KY)

8th-KYO, ¥14,360,000 ($136k), Allowance, 3yo/up, 1200m
DUAL CAREER (c, 4, War Front–A Star Is Born {Ire}, by Galileo {Ire}), a 475,000gns graduate of the 2017 Tattersalls October Book 1 Sale, has romped in each of his three career starts, all this season, winning by a combined 16 lengths on the dirt course at Mombetsu on the lesser NAR circuit. The impeccably bred bay, a full-brother to SW & MG1SP Fleet Review, is out of a winning full-sister to champion and treble Group 1 winner Rip Van Winkle (Ire) and a half to Italian Group 3 winner Le Vie Infinite (Ire) (Le Vie Dei Colori {GB}). B-Orpendale, Chelston & Wynatt (KY)

12th-TOK, ¥21,000,000 ($198k), Allowance, 3yo/up, 1400m
LECCE BAROQUE (f, 3, Uncle Mo–My Fast One, by Elusive Quality) looks to give pinhooker Carlo Vaccarezza and Top Line Sales a second Japanese winner in as many weekends, following on the success of Sui (Candy Ride {Arg}) Oct. 3. A $410K Keeneland September yearling turned $525K OBS March breezer, the dark bay could not have been more impressive in graduating by 10 lengths at first asking over this track and distance Feb. 8 and added an equally sparkling nine-length allowance Apr. 25 (see below, gate 10). She was burned up on the pace when the 2-1 second favorite to Cafe Pharoah (American Pharoah) in the June 21 G3 Unicorn S. (1600m) and makes a much-anticipate return here. Lecce Baroque is out of a half-sister to the late No Mo Dough (Uncle Mo) and MSP Terrific Storm (Storm Cat). B-MMM Stables (KY)

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