First Equinox Foals to be Offered at JRHA Select Sale

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This year's JRHA Select Sale is set to feature 25 foals from the first crop of Equinox, the world's top-rated horse of 2023 who retired to Shadai Stallion Station for a record fee for a freshman sire.

The yearling session on Monday, July 14, features 233 lots, followed by the next day's sale of 251 foals, which, uniquely, are offered alongside their dams before being weaned. The action takes places at Northern Horse Park in Hokkaido. 

The Equinox youngsters include colts out of the G1 Oka Sho winner Reine Minoru and American Grade I winners Midnight Bisou, Caledonia Road, Grace Adler, Going To Vegas, and Mucho Unusual, as well as fillies from further Grade I winners Bella Sofia, Spanish Queen, and Conviction. 

Also among the foals for sale are the first offspring of the British Group 1 winners Lezoo, who has a colt by Kingman, and Commissioning, whose first foal is a colt by Japanese Triple Crown winner Contrail. 

The yearling section includes a Saturnalia half-brother to the ill-fated Fillies' Triple Crown winner Liberty Island; a half-brother to the G1 Cox Plate and G1 Arima Kinen winner Lys Gracieux from the first crop of Japanese 2,000 Guineas winner Efforia; and a Contrail half-sister to multiple Group 1 winner Wonderful Tonight. 

Among the star graduates of the JRHA Select Sale are this year's G1 Saudi Cup winner Forever Young (Real Steel) and G1 Dubai Sheema Classic winner Danon Decile (Epiphaneia), both of whom were bought as yearlings at the 2022 auction. 

The catalogue for the 2025 JRHA Select Sale can be viewed here. 

 

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