Quality Road Daughter of Brave Anna Looks To Go One Better at Tokyo

With a Quality Road filly in utero, champion Brave Anna fetched $3 million at Fasig-Tipton November in 2021 | Fasig-Tipton

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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 Fukushima and Tokyo Racecourses. Sunday's horses of interest will appear in Saturday's TDN:

Saturday, November 2, 2024
1st-FKS, ¥10,480,000 ($69k), Maiden, 2yo, 1700m
CHUWA CHIEF (c, 2, Tom's d'Etat–Figure, by Overanalyze) gave an excellent account of himself on Chukyo debut Sept. 7, outrunning odds of 10-1 to fill out the exacta, beaten 3 1/2 lengths going nine furlongs. A $60,000 Keeneland September yearling turned $190,000 OBS March juvenile, the Mar. 12 foal is out of a stakes-placed half-sister to Grade III winner Ben's Duchess (Munnings). The extended female family includes GI Hollywood Derby hero Vergennes (Dynaformer). B-WinStar Farm LLC (KY)

2nd-TOK, ¥10,480,000 ($69k), Maiden, 2yo, 1600m
ERIKA MAYURI (JPN) (f, 2, Quality Road–Brave Anna, by War Front) split horses to lead inside the final furlong of her course-and-distance debut only to get tagged on the wire at a well-backed 22-5. Brave Anna, the highweight 2-year-old filly in Europe after taking out the 2016 G1 Cheveley Park Stakes, was purchased by Masahiro Miki with this filly in utero for $3 million at Fasig-Tipton November in 2021. The mare is a daughter of Irish Group 3 winner Liscanna (Ire) (Sadler's Wells), whose seven additional winners includes 2015 GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf hero Hit It a Bomb (War Front) and dual Group 1 winner Opera Singer (Justify), and the family also includes Group 2-placed dam of GISP Grafton Street (War Front). B-EM Planning LLC

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