Notable US-Breds in Japan: June 1 & 2, 2019

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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 Hanshin and Toyko Racecourses, the latter of which hosts Horse of the Year Almond Eye (Jpn) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}) in the G1 Yasuda Kinen:

Saturday, June 1, 2019
2nd-HSN, ¥9,550,000 ($88k), Maiden, 3yo, 1400m
MONUMENT KING (c, 3, Creative Cause–Overvalued, by Forest Grove) cuts back and switches to the main track after finishing well down the field in a 2000m turf maiden at Chukyo in January. A $500K purchase out of the 2017 Keeneland September sale, the dark bay was the most expensive of his successful sire’s 30 yearlings to sell that season and his the first produce of a mare who won no fewer than 11 black-type races in Western Canada. B-Brereton C Jones (KY)

Sunday, June 2, 2019
5th-TOK, ¥13,400,000 ($124k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1600mT
KAKUSHIN (c, 2, Malibu Moon–Switcheroo, by Exchange Rate) cost $190K as a KEENOV weanling in 2017 before being led out unsold on a bid of $170K at KEESEP last year. Produced by a half-sister to GSW & GISP juvenile I Spent It (Super Saver), the colt descends from a third dam whose half-sister She’s Tops (Capote) accounted for two-time graded-winning 2-year-old and multiple Grade I-winning 3-year-old Dixie Union (Dixieland Band). B-Thomas & Renee Scucci, Dividing Ridge Farm & Doug Smith (KY)

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