Journalists Wandering Eyes Posted January 31, 2019 Journalists Share Posted January 31, 2019 In this continuing series, Alan Carasso takes 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 Chukyo and Kyoto and Tokyo Racecourses: Saturday, February 2, 20194th-KYO, ¥11,400,000 ($105k), Newcomers, 3yo, 1800m LUMINOUS SWORD (f, 3, Candy Ride {Arg}–Kara’s Match Point, by Curlin) is out of a winning daughter of GSP Home Court (Storm Cat), dam of MGSW & GISP Coup de Grace (Tapit)–now standing stud at Klawervlei Stud in South Africa–and Grade I-winning juvenile filly Dancing Rags (Union Rags). Keith and Ginger Myers’s Coteau Grove Farm purchased Kara’s Match Point for $260K at Keeneland November in 2015, sold Luminous Sword back for $230K as a weanling and $450K from Japan’s Shimokobe Farm for Kara’s Match Point in foal to Constitution at KEENOV in 2016. Luminous Sword was also a $210K KEESEP yearling. B-Coteau Grove Farm (KY) 10th-CKO, ¥19,000,000 ($175k), Allowance, 3yo, 1200m TIMING NOW (c, 3, Tapit–Her Smile, by Include), a $750K KEESEP acquisition, got his career off on a high note, kicking home by four solid lengths in a newcomers’ event at Kyoto Jan. 5 (see below, gate 8). The February foal is the third produce out of the 2011 GI Prioress S. winner, who fetched $1.5 million from Larry and Karen Doyle’s KatieRich Farm at KEENOV in 2014. The foal she was carrying at the time became $625K Fasig-Tipton Saratoga grad Pink Sands (f, Tapit), a Gulfstream allowance winner in late December. The legendary Yutaka Take has the call. B-KatieRich Farms (KY) Sunday, February 3, 20196th-TOK, ¥11,400,000 ($105k), Newcomers, 3yo, 1800mT NOBLE MAYOR (c, 3, Noble Mission {GB}–Mayoress {GB}, by Machiavellian), a $150K graduate of the 2017 Fasig-Tipton Turf Showcase sale, is out of a full-sister to Marietta, winner of the GIII Iowa Oaks and GIII Arlington Oaks in 2007; and out of a half to SW Thousand Islands (GB) (Dubai Millennium {GB}), whose son Watershed (Bernardini) won the GIII Ben Ali S. in this country and was Group 3-placed in Dubai. The GSW & MGISP third dam Dowery (Full Pocket) was a half-sister to the Grade I-winning turf mare Reluctant Guest (Hostage). B-Fred W Hertrich III & John D Fielding (KY) View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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