Deep Impact, Lord Kanaloa Colts Top JRHA Yearlings

[Wandering Eyes]

Though he is gone, Deep Impact (Jpn) is far from forgotten, Shadai's breed-shaping sire having this year provided Classic winners in both his native country and in Britain in the form of the 16-length G1 Cazoo Oaks winner Snowfall (Jpn). He retains his position atop the Japanese sire standings, where he has sat uninterrupted since 2012, and the presence of four of his last-crop yearlings in Monday's opening session of the JRHA Select Sale were unsurprisingly among the very highest draws for buyers at Hokkaido's Northern Horse Park. His colt out of GII Black-Eyed Susan S. and GII Gulfstream Park Oaks winner Go Maggie Go (Ghostzapper) was given the generally unenviable first appointment in the ring, but class told through, with the colt (lot 1) fetching ¥300-million ($2,724,435/€2,298,612/£1,965,600) from Hasegawa Yuji.

As is always the case when a leading light goes out, however, another rises to fill the void, and Lord Kanaloa (Jpn) has proven a revelation in recent seasons. Free of Deep Impact-being by another former giant of the sire ranks, King Kamehameha, and out of a Storm Cat mare-Lord Kanaloa sits on Deep Impact's heels on the sire table and matched his former Shadai barnmate in the ring on Monday, with a colt out of American champion female sprinter Finest City (City Zip) (lot 100) coming along midway through the session to share the ¥300-million top-price honours with the Deep Impact colt when bought by Fujita Susumu. Upon conclusion of trade, Lord Kanaloa colts filled three of the top five spots on the leaderboard.

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