Notable US-Breds in Japan: May 26 & 27, 2018

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In this ongoing 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 Kyoto and Tokyo Racecourses. The latter plays host to Sunday’s G1 Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby), which has attracted a field of 18, including US-bred GSW & G1SP Gendarme (Kitten’s Joy), to be ridden by ‘the legend’ Yutaka Take.

Saturday, May 26, 2018
4th-Kyoto, ¥9,550,000 ($87k), Maiden, 3yo, 1600mT
MOZU SUTOFURA (c, 3, Smart Strike–Every Cloud, by Storm Cat), a $160K KEESEP grad, is a debuting full-brother to two-time turf graded winner Cloud Scapes and his dam is a full-sister to 1993 GI Test S. winner Missed the Storm. Every Cloud is also a half to Green Means Go (Green Dancer), himself a dual graded winner on grass. Third dam Miss Carmie (T.V. Lark) bred champion Chris Evert, the granddam of champion Chief’s Crown (Danzig), and All Rainbows (Bold Hour), dam of GI Kentucky Derby and Eclipse Award winner Winning Colors (Caro {Ire}). B-Kendall E Hansen MD Racing LLC & W S Farish (KY)

9th-Tokyo, ¥28,600,000 ($262k), Allowance, 4yo/up, 1400m
EAGLE BAROWS (c, 4, Henny Hughes-Minny’s Niece, by Quiet American) was well-bet, but well-beaten on debut last July, but won his maiden by better than a dozen lengths the following month (gate 14) and added a five-length allowance score at this venue when last seen Oct. 28 (video, gate 14). Eagle Barows was a $20K KEESEP yearling turned $250K OBSAPR breezer. B-C Kidder & N Cole (KY)

WATCH: Eagle Barows’s towering maiden victory last August

Sunday, May 27, 2018
1st-Kyoto, ¥9,550,000 ($87k), Maiden, 3yo, 1200m
ANCHOR TESORO (f, 3, Giant’s Causeway–Anchorage, by Tapit) split a field of maidens in her January bow, but has since seen her value enhanced, as her full-brother Chip Leader was second in the GIII Ben Ali S.–and is entered for Saturday’s GIII Salvator Mile–while her year-younger half-sister Tijori (Will Take Charge) was named a ‘TDN Rising Star’ for a smashing debut score at Santa Anita May 11. Anchor Tesoro was a $25K KEESEP yearling and $60K OBSAPR juvenile. B-Dr Christoph Berglar (KY)

1st-Tokyo, ¥9,550,000 ($87k), Maiden, 3yo, 1400m
SPADA (c, 3, Speightstown–A Bit of Humor, by Distorted Humor) failed to handle the turf when well down the field on January debut, but improved markedly to finish third in a course-and-distance maiden May 5 (gate 9). The $600K FTSAUG graduate is out of a winning full-sister to MSW Saratoga Humor, the dam of MGSW Heart Stealer (Speightstown). B-Fairlawn Farm (KY)

WATCH: Spada was a much-improved third last time out

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