Kizuna Colt Rises to the Occasion At Oi

[Wandering Eyes]

Natural Rise (Jpn) (Kizuna {Jpn}) earned his first black-type badge with an open-length win in the Listed Haneda Hia, the first leg of the Japan Dirt Triple Crown at Oi on Tuesday.

A winner of both a newcomer race at Sapporo last July and the Cattleya Stakes (Cond.) at Tokyo in November, the colt was fourth at Kawasaki. He bounced back with a victory in the Keihin Hai locally near the end of March.

Quickly into stride, the 3-10 favourite soon stalked in third as the field headed into the first turn. Tossing his head and acting up on the backstretch, Natural Rise had dead aim on the pacesetter Smile Mambo (Jpn) (Declaration Of War) and Janadriyah (Jpn) (Gold Dream {Jpn})  after the first six furlongs. Cruising up three deep, he soon brushed his rivals aside in early stretch, sidled over to the rail and crossed the wire an easy winner. Night Of Fire (Jpn) (Hokko Tarumae {Jpn}) closed to be second.

The first foal of the dual winner Lady Madonna, Natural Rise is followed by a 2-year-old filly by Henny Hughes, a yearling filly by Le Vent Se Leve (Jpn) and a Orfevre (Jpn) colt born this year. The third dam is stakes winner and GII Silverbulletday Stakes third Rebridled Dreams (Unbridled's Song), the dam of four stakes winners including Grade I winners Carpe Diem (Giant's Causeway) and J. B.'s Thunder (Thunder Gulch), and multiple graded winner Farrell (Malibu Moon), who was second in the GI La Troienne Stakes.

HANEDA HAI-Listed (Jpn-G1), ¥85,000,000, Oi, 4-29, 3yo, 1800m, 1:52.10, my.
1–NATURAL RISE (JPN), 126, c, 3, Kizuna (Jpn)
            1st Dam: Lady Madonna (Jpn), by Distorted Humor
            2nd Dam: Dreamwriter, by Tale of the Cat
            3rd Dam: Rebridled Dreams, by Unbridled's Song
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. (¥33,000,000 Wlg '22 JRHAJUL).
O-Hiroyuki Yoshioka; B-Grand Farm (Jpn); T-Keizo Ito; J-Takeshi
Yokoyama; ¥50,000,000. Lifetime Report: 5-4-0-0,
¥107,743,000.
2–Night of Fire (Jpn), 126, c, 3, Hokko Tarumae (Jpn)–Nose
Tosho (Jpn), by Black Hawk (GB). 1ST BLACK TYPE.
(¥13,200,000 Ylg '23 JBBAAUG). O-Koichi Hoshika; B-Haruo
Sakamoto (Jpn); ¥17,500,000.
3–Janadriyah (Jpn), 126, c, 3, Gold Dream (Jpn)–Tasha's Star, by
Spanish Steps. 1ST BLACK TYPE. O-Sunday Racing; B-Northern
Farm (Jpn); ¥10,000,000.
Margins: 5, 6, 3/4. Odds: 0.30, 14.70, 2.90.
Also Ran: Smile Mambo (Jpn), Amazing (Jpn), Myvatn (Jpn), Friend Roma (Jpn), Gran Giorno (Jpn), Pepita d'Oro (Jpn), Costa De La Luz (Jpn), Kaseno Tiger (Jpn), King Of World (Jpn), Vektor Mach (Jpn), Scallop (Jpn), Bubbling Stone (Jpn). Click for the NAR chart and video.

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