By Alan Carasso
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 Chukyo Racecourse:
Saturday, September 7, 2024
4th-CKO, ¥13,720,000 ($95k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1800m
AMERICAN STAGE (c, 2, Into Mischief–Bonita Mia, by Warrior's Reward), a half-brother to three-time Grade III-winning sprinter Super Chow (Lord Nelson) and SW Princess Indy (Lord Nelson), was a $500,000 purchase out of last year's Keeneland September Sale by Yoshizawa Stable Co. The colt's unraced dam is a half-sister to Miss Match (Arg) (Indygo Shiner), an elite-level winner in Argentina and the U.S.; and to former 'TDN Rising Star' and 2016 GI Acorn Stakes winner Carina Mia (Malibu Moon), whose most recent foal–a colt by Epiphaneia (Jpn)–made $2.3 million at this year's JRHA Select Sale in July. Argentinian champion and GI Spinster Stakes victress Miss Linda (Arg) (Southern Halo) appears under the third dam. B-Spendthrift Farm LLC (KY)
CHUWA CHIEF (c, 2, Tom's d'Etat–Figure, by Overanalyze) made $60,000 as a Keeneland September yearling last fall and matured into a $190,000 OBS March breezer after working an eighth of a mile in :10 1/5. The March foal's stakes-placed dam is a half-sister to Grade III winner Ben's Duchess (Munnings) and the deeper female family includes GI Hollywood Derby winner Vergennes and MGISW turfer Nijinsky's Secret. B-WinStar Farm LLC (KY)
Sunday, September 8, 2024
4th-CKO, ¥13,720,000 ($95k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1200mT
T O ELVIS (c, 2, Volatile–Stopshoppingdebbie, by Curlin) is the latest to the races for his dam, winner of no fewer than eight stakes races at Emerald Downs and subsequently the dam of Generous Tipper (Street Sense), third in last year's GI Claiborne Breeders' Futurity. The dual stakes-winning second dam Taste the Passion (Wild Again) is responsible for six winners from nine to start, including five-time Emerald stakes winner Shampoo (Gulch)–also a stakes producer–and treble black-type winner and GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies participant Smarty Deb (Smart Strike), herself the dam of two stakes winners. B-Jeff & Melissa Prunzik (KY)
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