Seven-Figure Daughter of Rachel’s Valentina Debuts at Tokyo

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In this continuing series, we take 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 Hanshin and Tokyo Racecourses:

Saturday, February 21, 2026
4th-HSN, ¥12,330,000 ($80k), Newcomers, 3yo, 1800m
WE MOVE (c, 3, Curlin–Shamrock Rose, by First Dude) is the second foal to the races for his dam, named the Eclipse Award-winning female sprinter of 2018 when besting her elders in the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint. Also victorious in that year's GII Lexus Raven Run Stakes, the Pennsylvania-bred mare was purchased by K I Farm for $3 million with this colt in utero at the 2022 Keeneland November Sale. Shamrock Rose was subsequently covered by Flightline and exported to Japan in 2023 and her latest foal is a colt named Mic Story (Jpn). She was covered last year by Equinox (Jpn), having not produced to the same stallion in 2025. O-Yuko Nakamura; B-K I Farm Corporation (KY); T-Hiroyuki Uemura

RASCAL KID (c, 3, American Pharoah–Treasure Trail, by Pulpit), a $70,000 Keeneland September yearling, is a half-brother to Irish Group 3 winner and GI Secretariat Stakes runner-up Long Island Sound (War Front) and to the dam of Paradise Like (Uncle Mo), recent winner of the GIII Robert J. Frankel Stakes at Santa Anita. Dam Treasure Trail is a daughter of Vertigineux (Kris S.), whose six winners include the once-beaten, 11-times Grade I winner and Horse of the Year Zenyatta (Street Cry {Ire}) and treble elite-level scorer Balance (Thunder Gulch), herself the dam of SW Zverev (Oscar Performance). O-Makoto Kato; B-Mr Joseph Allen LLC (KY); T-Kazuya Nakatake

4th-TOK, ¥12,330,000 ($80k), Newcomers, 3yo, 1600m
COLORER (f, 3, Quality Road–Rachel's Valentina, by Bernardini), a $1.05-million Keeneland September purchase, is one of two American-bred and -sourced 3-year-olds debuting here in the colors of owner Yoko Maeda. Rachel's Valentina was the second and final foal out of Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra (Medaglia d'Oro) and was named a debut 'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of the latter's success in the 2009 GI Haskell Stakes. Subsquently victorious in the GI Spinaway Stakes, Rachel's Valentina is the dam of two winners, including GSP Valentinian (Into Mischief). O-Yoko Maeda; B-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC (KY); T-Yuichi Fukunaga

 

 

The legacy continues ? Homebred G1W RACHEL'S VALENTINA, daughter of champion RACHEL ALEXANDRA, delivered a beautiful filly by leading sire QUALITY ROAD! #Storkstreet #BredandRaised #foalsof2023 @LanesEndFarms pic.twitter.com/yKJImPU2jX

— Stonestreet (@StonestreetFarm) March 16, 2023

 

LUPO (c, 3, Not This Time–Spring Storm, by Unbridled's Song) was bought back on a bid of $90,000 at the 2024 Keeneland September Sale and validated that decision when changing hands for $230,000 at last year's OBS March Sale. The Feb. 10 foal is the seventh starter out of a half-sister to SW Beautiful Daniele (A.P. Indy), the dam of Bodenheimer (Atta Boy Roy) and King of Speed (Jimmy Creed), each a dual stakes winner at two. This is the extended female family of champion Countess Diana (Deerhound). Christophe Lemaire sees fit to ride. O-Yoko Maeda; B-Machmer Hall (KY); T-Ken Kozaki

 

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