Expensive Into Mischief Breezer Gets Going at Niigata

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 Sunday running at Tokyo and Niigata Racecourses:

Sunday, October 6, 2024
3rd-TOK, ¥13,720,000 ($92k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1600m
MALIBU ORANGE (f, 2, Vekoma–Malibu Pier, by Malibu Moon), whose dam won a trio of graded stakes on the turf and was runner-up in the GI La Brea Stakes on the main track, is a half-sister to SW & GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf second Coasted (Tizway), who has become a commercial success since being purchased by Katsumi Yoshida for $1.3 million at Fasig-Tipton November in 2017 and exported to Japan. Coasted's first foal is Danon Beluga (Jpn) (Heart's Cry {Jpn}), a Group 3 winner and Group 1-placed at home and twice runner-up in the G1 Dubai Turf who sold for nearly $1.5 million as a foal. She is also the dam of Bond Girl (Jpn) (Daiwa Major {Ire}), a $1.54-million yearling and placed four times at group level. Coasted's foal of 2024, a filly by Saturnalia (Jpn), was purchased by Susumu Fujita for $1.06 million this past summer. B-Newtownanner Stud Farm (KY)

JUNE EOS (f, 2, Constitution–Lights of Medina, by Eskendereya), a $400,000 Keeneland September acquisition, is out of a stakes-winning mare who was also second in the 2017 GII Black-Eyed Susan Stakes and whose first foal, Pioneer of Medina (Pioneerof the Nile), was third in the 2022 GII Louisiana Derby and won the 2023 GIII Mineshaft Stakes. The yearling half-sister to June Eos by Twirling Candy was knocked down to C2 Racing Stable for $300,000 at the recently concluded September Sale. B-International Equities Holding Inc (KY)

5th-NII, ¥13,720,000 ($92k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1200m
POULSEN (c, 2, Into Mischief–Separationofpowers, by Candy Ride {Arg}) is the second foal and first to make the races from his dam, winner of the GI Frizette Stakes in 2017 and the GI Longines Test Stakes at three before changing hands for $2.1 million at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton November Sale. A Feb. 11 foal, Poulsen was bought back for $535,000 as a Keeneland November weanling in 2022, then fetched $350,000 at last summer's Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale. Consigned by Scanlon Training & Sales to this year's OBS April Sale, the bay colt drilled an eighth of a mile in :9 4/5 and was hammered down to Naohiro Sakaguchi for $925,000. B-Hunter Valley Farm & Mountmellick Farm LLC (KY)

SONG COLLECTOR (f, 2, Collected–Kylers Song, by El Corredor) cost $47,000 at OBSAPR after breezing in :10 flat, having originally been purchased for just $1,500 as a short yearling at the 2023 Keeneland January Sale. The May 18 foal is the first to race out of a winning daughter of five-time stakes winner and dual graded-placed Summer Song (Sunday Break {Jpn}), the dam of GII Amsterdam Stakes runner-up Excitations (Into Mischief). Third dam Lost Expectations (Valid Expectation) produced GI Juddmonte Spinster Stakes heroine and GI Breeders' Cup Distaff runner-up Don't Tell Sophia (Congaree). B-Marette & Canice Farrell & Zoe Cadman (KY)