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Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 5:33 pm |Back to: Europe, Top News Europe Too Darn Hot's Etes Vous Prets scored her sire's first Japanese Group win and a start in the G1 Oka Sho | Darley In a first Japanese Group win for her sire, Etes Vous Prets (Ire) (Too Darn Hot (GB)-Nahoodh {Ire} (GISW-Eng, G1SP-Ire, $443612), by Clodovil {Ire}) stubbornly held on…

Amante Bianco has taken the early lead on the Japan road to the Kentucky Derby, finishing sharply to win the Cattleya Stakes on Saturday morning at Tokyo. The win earned him 10 points toward an entry in the 2024 Kentucky Derby. Through the early stages Amante Bianco raced a bit keenly midpack. More Than Once, the lone filly in the race, set the…

Is it a race in two, or is Equinox already the World's Best Racehorse for 2023, and with jockey Christophe Lemaire will it be victory in this 43rd Japan Cup, in association with Longines. In carrying the Longines World's Best Racehorse Ranking of 129 all season, he's the $1.40 betting favourite with Longines and will start from Gate 2 of 18 runners…

From an aesthetic perspective, the only similarity between Sodashi (Jpn), the world's most recognizable and talented white galloper, and her year-younger full-sister Mama Cocha (Jpn) (Kurofune) is the latter's broad blaze, but they now have something else in common, namely Group 1 winner, after Mama Cocha dove across the line to narrowly best Mad…

The Arrowfield love affair with the Japanese thoroughbred has expanded with the arrival of the unbeaten Champion Japan 2YO Colt in Admire Mars joining their 2021 roster. Arrowfield Stud had definitely been the front runner in growing the Japanese success in Australia, with Admire Mars being a three-time Group 1 winner, bred by the famous Northern…

Victorious in last year's G2 Keio Hai Nisai S. (1400m), Obamburumai (Jpn) (Discreet Cat) was having his first start since finishing seventh to Dolce More (Jpn) (Rulership {Jpn}) in the G1 Asahi Hai Futurity S. in December. Settled just ahead of midfield as lukewarm favourite Yurisha (Jpn) (Greater London {Jpn}) tore away to lead by nearly double…

Liberty Island, guided by Yuga Kawada, earns a come-from-behind victory in the Oka Sho at Hanshin Racecourse on April 9. (KYODO) Liberty Island and Yuga Kawada exhibited excellent synergy in the most important phase of the 83rd Oka Sho (Japanese 1000 Guineas). Horse and jockey efficiently and swiftly moved with purpose from near the back of the…

Sunday, February 12, 2023 at 3:17 pm |Back to: Europe, Do Deuce last season | JRA Despite running a forgettable 19th when last seen in the G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe last October, last season's G1 Japanese Derby scorer Do Deuce (Jpn) (Heart's Cry {Jpn}) launched the 2023 season the right way, coming from far off the pace to take Sunday's G2 Kyoto…

California Spangle, seen at trackwork Dec. 7, tackles champion Golden Sixty and some tough foreign competition in Sunday's Group 1 Longines Hong Kong Mile. Photo courtesy of Hong Kong Jockey Club HONG KONG, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- The Longines Hong Kong International Races take center stage in weekend horse racing, with competition from around the globe…

Japan will launch a five-pronged attack on next month's Group One Hong Kong Cup (2000m) as it looks to win the city's richest race for the fourth year running. Panthalassa, Geoglyph, Jack d'Or, Danon The Kid and Lei Papale are set to make the trip from the Land of the Rising Sun to take on leading hometown hope Romantic Warrior in the HK$34 million…

A racehorse with an X-rated name has triumphed despite an odds rating of 150-1. The horse, with the bizarre name of Sh**a Bed, took part in a race in Tokyo, Japan and the three-year-old was introduced at a three-figure price. But Jockey Shouhei Takahashi defied the odds and won by half a length in what was an unlikely victory. Nearly two years…

All Parfait (Jpn) (Real Steel {Jpn}) made it back-to-back victories with a half-length triumph in the 1600-metre G2 Daily Hai Nisai S. at Hanshin on Saturday. Second was race favourite Danon Touchdown (Jpn) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}), who left the gates at 5-2. The first stakes-winner for his 2016 G1 Dubai Turf-winning sire, the 2-year-old colt broke in…

Jessica Harrington and Shane Foley with Magical Lagoon after winning the Irish Oaks Jessica Harrington will bid to enhance what is already one of the most colourful CVs in world racing when she breaks new ground with her first runner in Japan on Sunday. Harrington has won multiple Irish Classics, Royal Ascot prizes and the Cheltenham Gold Cup and…

Race replay plus all the details as Sodashi, the all-white Thoroughbred cult heroine of Japanese racing, masters a talent-laden field to win the G1 Victoria Mile at Tokyo racecourse - a'Win and You're In' race for the Breeders' Cup at Keeneland. Tokyo: Victoria Mile G1 ¥281.8m ($2.45m/£1.78m) 1m, turf, 4yo+ f/m Sodashi (Naosuke Sugai/Hayato…

White filly Sodashi enhanced her immense popularity when returning to winning ways in the Grade 1 Victoria Mile at Tokyo on Sunday. Tracking the leaders in fourth for most of the race, jockey Hayato Yoshida asked Sodashi to go in the home straight and she responded emphatically to the delight of a vocal crowd. The two-length success over Fine Rouge…

Five unbeaten 2-year-old colts lined up in Sunday's championship-crowning G1 Asahi Hai Futurity S. at Hanshin, and it was the third betting choice Do Deuce (Jpn) (Heart's Cry {Jpn}) who emerged with his perfect record intact while handing legendary jockey Yutaka Take his first win in the race. In a pattern that would be unusual in most other major…

Japanese hopeful Danon Kingly stretches his legs Thursday before Sunday's Group 1 Hong Kong Mile at Sha Tin Racecourse. Photo courtesy of Hong Kong Jockey Club Dec. 10 (UPI) -- International events hold sway on the weekend horse racing schedule with the Hong Kong International Races front and center. Some promising 2-year-old fillies contest the…

The G1 Shuka Sho had been billed as the stomping grounds of wildly popular white filly and G1 Japanese 1000 Guineas heroine Sodashi (Jpn) (Kurofune {Jpn}), but instead, 7-1 shot Akaitorino Musume (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) spoiled the party at Kyoto on Sunday. Following in the hoofsteps of her dam, 2010 Shuka Sho victress Apapane, the Makoto Kaneko…

Akaitorino Musume (No.12) and Keita Tosaki en route to Shuka Sho success All-white superstar Sodashi could manage only tenth in the Group 1 Shuka Sho at Hanshin on Sunday as Deep Impact's improving daughter Akaitorino Musume stormed to a first top-level victory. Trained by Sakae Kunieda and ridden by Keita Tosaki, the three-year-old filly beat dual…

Sodashi, shown winning the Sapporo Kinen in her last start Aug. 22, returns in Sunday's Grade 1 Shuka Sho at Hanshin Racecourse. Photo courtesy of Japan Racing Association Oct. 15 (UPI) -- As American horse racing enters its pre-Breeders' Cup "calm before the storm" this weekend, the international contingent ably plugs the gap with the world's…

Sunday rounds out the Grade 1 action for the first half of the year in Japan, and after some great racing at Tokyo in May and early June, Hanshin Racecourse will be the venue for this week's Grade 1 Takarazuka Kinen. One of two races in the year where horses are elected by votes from the fans, this year's top choice for the early summer race goes…

Triple Crown winner Contrail looks tailor-made for the Osaka Hai over his favoured trip but faces a speedy rival in Gran Alegria The growing sense of anticipation among Flat racing fans in Britain this weekend is felt just as keenly in Japan where the season is also ready to burst into life. The first Grade 1 race of the turf season, the…

Sodashi, a rare white Thoroughbred shown winning the Artemis Stakes earlier in the season, is among the favorites for Sunday's Grade 1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies. Photo courtesy of Japan Racing Association Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Weekend horse racing takes an international turn as Sunday's Longines Hong Kong International Races could see the final runs by…

Reine Minoru draws clear of Soul Stirring in the Oka Sho Report: Japan, Sunday There was no instant Classic success for Frankel as Soul Stirring finished third behind surprise winner Reine Minoru (Masaru Honda/Kenichi Ikezoe) in the Oka Sho, Japan's equivalent of the 1000 Guineas, at Hanshin on Sunday. Soul Stirring, who became the debut top-level…