Maxfield Colt Danon Bourbon Dominates Kyoto Allowance

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Danox Co. Ltd's Danon Bourbon (Maxfield), a $450,000 Keeneland September yearling, began to chip away at that outlay when powering home to graduate by 10 lengths at first asking over a muddy main track at this venue last Oct. 26 and was a warm item to pick up where he left off making his 3-year-old debut in a first-level allowance over 1900 meters at Kyoto Racecourse on Feb. 15.

Favored at 9-10 despite the absence and drawn one from the outside in a field of nine, the dark bay was asked for just a bit of gate speed to take up a forward position and settled well enough from a three-wide third down the back.

Poised three deep on the turn, Danon Bourbon responded when set down passing the quarter pole and, despite failing to switch his leads until very late, put five lengths on third choice Allen Star (Jpn) (Leontes {Jpn}), himself an eight-length winner in his career bow just eight days prior.

Blue Heaven Farm acquired Wild Ridge for $220,000 in foal to Candy Ride (Arg) at the 2016 Keeneland November sale and her four other winners includes Clubhouse (Speightstown), SP, $223,473.

A daughter of MGSW & GISP Wild Gams (Forest Wildcat), Wild Ridge is a half-sister to 'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard and dual graded winner Cazadero (Street Sense); Dubyuhnell (Good Magic), winner of the 2022 GII Remsen Stakes; SW Mt. Brave (Malibu Moon); and GSP Almost Famous (Unbridled's Song). Danon Bourbon has a 2-year-old half-brother by Nyquist, a yearling half-sister by Mage and Wild Ridge is due to Timberlake for 2026.

Danon Bourbon holds an entry for the 1900-meter G2 UAE Derby at Meydan Mar. 28, but would also be a candidate for the 1800-meter Fukuryu Stakes (allowance), the final and clinching race on the Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby the same afternoon at Nakayama Racecourse.

4th-Kyoto, ¥15,620,000 ($101,858), Allowance, 3yo, 1900m, 2:00.9, ft.
DANON BOURBON (c, 3, Maxfield–Wild Ridge, by Tapit) Sales history: $450,000 Ylg '24 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $102,746. VIDEO (SC 8)
O-Danox Co Ltd; B-Blue Heaven Farm (KY); T-Manabu Ikezoe.

 

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