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Equinox Bridges The Gap In Thrilling Tenno Sho

Panthalassa (Jpn) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}), who bravely dead-heated for the victory with defending champion Lord North (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) in this year's G1 Dubai Turf after making all the running, put on an even bolder show in Sunday's G1 Tenno Sho (Autumn) at Tokyo Racecourse. But after turning into the long straight with a double-digit advantage, he could not quite stave off favoured Equinox (Jpn) (Kitasan Black {Jpn}), who whistled home down the centre of the course to lead in the dying strides.

It was a third Tenno Sho in four years for the Silk Racing partnership, whose Horse of the Year Almond Eye (Jpn) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}) won it in 2019 and 2020.

Off at a generous 21-1, Panthalassa bounced well from his low gate, but had some surprising early company in the form of North Bridge (Jpn) (Maurice {Jpn}), and that may have had a material impact on the race, as a keyed-up Panthalassa rumbled right along through early fractions of :23.5 and :46 for the opening 800 metres. Equinox, making his first start since just missing in the G1 Tokyo Yushun at this track in late May, settled kindly behind midfield and was content to allow the front-runner to do his thing, with no apparent panic from Christophe Lemaire.

Panthalassa led by the better part of 15 lengths as the Tenno Sho field hit the turn and carried that sort of advantage off the final corner, daring the market leaders to catch him if they could. Equinox was steered off the heels of Potager (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) at the 450m and began to progress, but still had around eight lengths to find entering the final furlong. Despite racing on his incorrect leg, Equinox gathered up Panthalassa late on, who gamely held for second ahead of Danon Beluga (Jpn) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}). Equinox covered his final 600 metres in :32.7, a tenth of a second quicker than Danon Beluga. Jack d'Or (Jpn) (Maurice {Jpn}) was a further neck back in fourth, while 2021 Derby hero and this year's G1 Dubai Sheema Classic winner Shahryar (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) was fifth in a useful prep for the G1 Longines Japan Cup Nov. 27.

“I'm happy that we were able to catch Panthalassa,” said Lemaire, winning his third Tenno Sho in four years and his 42nd Group 1 on the JRA circuit. “I saw him way in front of us after turning into the straight, the huge gap did worry me a bit, but my colt gave his best and displayed an incredible turn of foot. If he comes out of this race safe and well, he has every chance to do well in the Japan Cup or the Arima Kinen. This was his first Group 1 win but definitely not his last.”

Pedigree Notes:

Equinox is one of 54 winners to date for his second-crop sire and is his first top-level scorer. Kitasan Black, now responsible for three group winners following the victory of Ravel (Jpn) in Saturday's G3 Artemis S., is a son of Deep Impact's full-brother Black Tide (Jpn) and put together one of the great careers in recent memory.

Third to the late Duramente (Jpn) (King Kamehameha {Jpn}) in the 2015 G1 Satsuki Sho, Kitasan Black won that year's G1 Kikuka Sho (3000m) before adding his first G1 Tenno Sho (Spring) over two miles the following May. Named Horse of the Year after closing his 4-year-old season with a score in the G1 Japan Cup (2400m), he added the G1 Osaka Hai (2000m), a successful defence of his title in the Tenno Sho (Spring) in his next appearance and this race nearly five years to the day of Equinox's win. Run in heavy ground in 2017, Kitasan Black clocked 2:08.3. He retired as a dual Horse of the Year following success in the G1 Arima Kinen with 12 wins–seven at Group 1 level–from 20 starts for earnings of $16.5 million.

Out of Silk Racing colourbearer Chateau Blanche, Equinox is a half-brother to the operation's Group 3 winner Weiss Meteor, a 2-year-old colt by Just a Way (Jpn) and a yearling filly by Kizuna (Jpn). She did not produce a foal in 2022. Equinox is the second Group 1 winner out of a daughter of Dancing Brave son King Halo (Jpn), joining Sprinters' S. hero Pixie Knight (Jpn) (Maurice {Jpn}).

 

WATCH: Equinox catches Panthalassa in the Tenno Sho

 

Sunday, Tokyo, Japan
TENNO SHO (AUTUMN)-G1, ¥384,500,000, Tokyo, 10-30, 3yo/up, 2000mT, 1:57.5, fm.
1–EQUINOX (JPN), 123, c, 3, by Kitasan Black (Jpn)
1st Dam: Chateau Blanche (Jpn) (GSW-Jpn, $1,096,970), by King Halo (Jpn)
2nd Dam: Blancherie (Jpn), by Tony Bin (Ire)
3rd Dam: Maison Blanche (Jpn), by Alleged
1ST GROUP 1 WIN. O-Silk Racing; B-Northern Farm; T-Tetsuya Kimura; J-Christophe Lemaire; ¥203,150,000. Lifetime Record: 5-3-2-0, ¥403,242,000. *1/2 to Weiss Meteor (Jpn) (King Kamehameha {Jpn}), GSW-Jpn, $820,531. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*.
2–Panthalassa (Jpn), 128, h, 5, Lord Kanaloa (Jpn)–Miss Pemberley (Ire), by Montjeu (Ire). O-Hiroo Race; B-Hidenori Kimura; ¥80,900,000.
3–Danon Beluga (Jpn), 123, c, 3, Heart's Cry (Jpn)–Coasted, by Tizway. (¥160,000,000 wnlg '19 JRHAJUL). O-Danox Inc; B-Northern Farm; ¥50,450,000.
Margins: 1, NK, HF. Odds: 1.60, 21.80, 6.30.
Also Ran: Jack d'Or (Jpn), Shahryar (Jpn), Karate (Jpn), Maria Elena (Jpn), Uberleben (Jpn), Geoglyph (Jpn), Ablaze (Jpn), North Bridge (Jpn), Cadenas (Jpn), Potager (Jpn), Red Galant (Jpn), Babbitt (Jpn). Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Click for the JRA chart.

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Kitasan Black Filly Scores Bullseye In The Artemis

Striving to maintain her unbeaten record in Saturday's G3 Artemis S., Ravel (Jpn) (Kitasan Black {Jpn}) managed that feat by a neck over the favoured Liberty Island (Jpn) (Duramente {Jpn}) in the 1600-metre feature in Tokyo.

Sent off as the 6-1 third choice on the back of her one-length triumph in a Kokura maiden in July, the Northern Farm-bred and U Carrot Farm colourbearer was not the quickest away and dropped anchor last but one as Alice Verite (Jpn) (Kizuna {Jpn}) established a slight advantage over the pressing duo of Dynato Selene (Jpn) (Red Falx {Jpn}) and Masculine (Jpn) (One And Only {Jpn}). Unhurried on the bend, Ravel swooped widest of all in the lane, but still had most of the field to get by as Alice Verite set sail for home at the quarter-pole.

Closing with gusto, the bay had the leader in her sights inside the final furlong and wore that foe down in deep stretch, before withstanding the late charge of Liberty Island. It was another neck back in third to a game Alice Verite.

 

Pedigree Notes

By two-time Japanese Horse of the Year Kitasan Black (Jpn), himself a son of Deep Impact (Jpn)'s full-brother Black Tide (Jpn), Ravel is the third black-type winner and third group winner for her sire, whose oldest foals are just 3-year-olds. She joins the colts and Group 2 scorers Gaia Force (Jpn) and Equinox (Jpn), with the latter also second in both the G1 Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) and G1 Satsuki Sho (Japanese St Leger). Equinox leaves from gate seven in Sunday's G1 Tenno Sho (Autumn). Like Gaia Force, the bay carries inbreeding to the influential Sunday Silence.

Ravel's damline has inhabited the Land of the Rising Sun since the late 40s, and she is the third foal and winner for G3 Fairy S. third Sambre Et Meuse (Jpn) (Daiwa Major {Jpn}) after the G3 Falcon S. placegetter Westerwald (Jpn) (Novellist {Ire}) and G2 Tulip Sho heroine Namur (Jpn). That daughter of Harbinger (GB) played the bridesmaid in the G1 Shuka Sho (Japanese Fillies St Leger) and was third in the G1 Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks) this season.

One of four black-type horses out of her winning dam Vite Marcher (Jpn) (French Deputy), Sambre Et Meuse is a half-sister to none other than 2021 GI Breeders' Cup Distaff victrix Marche Lorraine (Jpn) (Orfevre {Jpn}).

 

Saturday, Tokyo, Japan
ARTEMIS S.-G3, ¥56,110,000, Tokyo, 10-29, 2yo, f, 1600mT, 1:33.80, fm.
1–RAVEL (JPN), 119, f, 2, by Kitasan Black (Jpn)
               1st Dam: Sambre et Meuse (Jpn), by Daiwa Major (Jpn)
               2nd Dam: Vite Marcher (Jpn), by French Deputy
               3rd Dam: Kyoei March (Jpn), by Dancing Brave
O-Carrot Farm; B-Northern Farm (Jpn); T-Yoshito Yahagi;
J-Ryusei Sakai. ¥29,357,000. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0. *1/2 to
Westerwald (Jpn) (Novellist {Ire}), GSP-Jpn, $761,865; and
Namur (Jpn) (Harbinger {GB}), GSW & MG1SP-Jpn, $1,309,898.
Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
Werk Nick Rating: D. Click for the
   eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Liberty Island (Jpn), 119, f, 2, Duramente (Jpn)–Yankee Rose
(Aus), by All American (Aus). 1ST BLACK TYPE. 1ST GROUP
   BLACK TYPE. O-Sunday Racing; B-Northern Farm (Jpn);
¥12,102,000.
3–Alice Verite (Jpn), 119, f, 2, Kizuna (Jpn)–Lumiere Verite, by
Cozzene. 1ST BLACK TYPE. 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. O-Makoto
Kato; B-North Hills (Jpn); ¥7,351,000.
Margins: NK, NK, HF. Odds: 6.90, 0.40, 14.70.
Also Ran: Dane Balance (Jpn), Malaki Naia (Jpn), Dynato Selene (Jpn), Masculine (Jpn), Kosei Maria (Jpn), Mississippi Tesoro (Jpn), Nishino Kofuku (Jpn). Click for the JRA chart and video.

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Seven-Figure Into Mischief Colt Kicks Off at Hanshin

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 Sunday entered to run on Tenno Sho day at Tokyo and at Hanshin Racecourse:

Sunday, October 30, 2022
4th-HSN, ¥13,400,000 ($91k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1200mT
META MAX (c, 2, Into Mischief–Zapara, by Not For Love) was purchased by Eddie Woods's Quarter Pole Enterprises for $180,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale and was one of four seven-figure sellers at this year's OBS March Sale, hammering to trainer Hideyuki Mori for $1.1 million after breezing an eighth of a mile in :9 4/5. A half-brother to the stakes-placed Basso (Cairo Prince), Meta Max is out of a half-sister to GSW Seeking Daylight (Seeking the Gold), GISW Hedonist (Alydeed) and SW Zaha (Kingmambo). B-Brookstone Farm & Lee Mauberret (KY)

4th-TOK, ¥13,400,000 ($91k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1600m
PARAIBA TOURMALINE (f, 2, Malibu Moon–Private Jet, by Smart Strike) was led out unsold at last year's Keeneland September sale on a bid of $70,000 and made that decision look shrewd when fetching $450,000 from Katsumi Yoshida at OBS March (:9 4/5). The Mar. 1 foal is out of a full-sister to dual Eclipse Award winner and Coolmore stallion Lookin At Lucky and a half-sister to MGSW Kensei (Mr. Greeley) and MGSW 'TDN Rising Star' Shahama (Munnings). This is also the family of champion Wait a While (Maria's Mon). B-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings (KY)

6th-HSN, ¥13,400,000 ($91k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1800m
MALEFICENT LOVE (f, 2, Arrogate–Highway Mary, by U S Ranger), a half-sister to Grade I-winning turf miler Hit The Road (More Than Ready), is out of an unraced daughter of GII E.P. Taylor S. winner Wandering Star (Red Ransom), also the dam of G1SW War Command (War Front) and GSW Naval Officer (Tale of the Cat). Maleficent Love was a $110,000 KEESEP buyback last fall. Also debuting is Godolphin homebred CACCIUCCO (f, 2, Nyquist–Livorno, by Bernardini), the first foal out of a half-sister to SW & GISP Arethusa (A.P. Indy) and to the dam of this year's GIII Prairie Meadows Cornhusker H. runner-up Fleetridge (Ghostzapper). B-Fred W Hertrich III (KY)

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Jack d’Or Has Recency Advantage In Star-Studded Tenno Sho

A formidable trio exiting this year's Japanese Triple Crown returns to the races in Sunday's G1 Tenno Sho (Autumn) at Tokyo Racecourse, but while each makes his first start since the G1 Tokyo Yushun in late May, the flashy Jack d'Or (Jpn) (Maurice {Jpn}) may have a slight advantage over his younger rivals–at least this time around.

The recognizable chestnut, whose sire took this race back in 2016, made meteoric progress early on this season, winning in listed company over course and distance in January before besting the classy Lei Papale (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) in all-the-way fashion in the G2 Kinko Sho and running the 2000 metres in a record time of 1:57.2. Only fifth to Potager (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) after setting the majority of the pace in the G1 Osaka Hai in April, Jack d'Oro was asked to settle off the speed of G1 Dubai Turf dead-heater Panthalassa (Jpn) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}) and ran that one down in the shadow of the post to take the G2 Sapporo Kinen Aug. 21 (video, SC 4).

“The races take a lot out of him and the rotation going in to the Osaka Hai was tight,” trainer Kenichi Fujioka opined. “The ground was worse than I thought it'd be, and the early lap times were faster than I expected. Last start, he was a bit heavy, but this time his weight should be down. Physically, he's always been good, and I don't think he's changed much. Though he's become calmer, he switches on well. He has had good results at Tokyo 2000 meters and lots of experience to the left. I would say it's his best trip.”

 

 

 

Leading the 3-year-old challenge is Equinox (Jpn), a son of 2017 Tenno Sho hero Kitasan Black (Jpn). A veteran of just four career starts, the Silk Racing colourbearer was a Group 2 winner at headquarters as a juvenile and contested the first two legs of this year's Classics, missing narrowly to Geoglyph (Jpn) (Drefong) in the G1 Satsuki Sho (Japanese 2000 Guineas) in April and by even a slimmer margin to Do Deuce (Jpn) (Heart's Cry {Jpn}) in the G1 Toyko Yushun (Japanese Derby) last time, with Geoglyph not running out the 2400 metres in seventh.

“This Wednesday, he breezed with two others on the woodchip flat course, and again, all looked good,” said trainer Tetsuya Kimura. “His footwork was excellent. The distance shouldn't be a problem. We will keep preparing him to bring out his best on raceday.”

 

 

 

The lightly raced Danon Beluga (Jpn) (Heart's Cry {Jpn}) sports a profile similar to Equinox, with a pair of wins from his four outings, including a defeat of Geoglyph in a Group 3 at this venue ahead of the Classics, but he was somewhat disappointing when fourth in both the Guineas and–as the 5-2 favourite–in the Derby.

Last year's Japanese Derby hero Shahryar (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) makes his first start at home this season, having contributed to a massive Dubai World Cup program for Japan with a victory over GI Breeders' Cup Turf hero Yibir (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) in the G1 Longines Dubai Sheema Classic in March ahead of a forgettable effort when fifth to State of Rest (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) in the G1 Prince of Wales's S. at Royal Ascot in June. The Sunday Racing runner clearly deserves his place in this field, but it can be argued that he'll be using this as a prep for next month's G1 Longines Japan Cup, in which he was third last season.

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