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 Saturday running at Chukyo and Kyoto Racecourses:
Saturday, December 7, 2024
5th-CKO, ¥13,720,000 ($91k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1400m
RAINBOW LUCKY (JPN) (f, 2, Quality Road–Wholehearted, by Awesome Again) is the first foal from her stakes-winning dam and was acquired by Yushun Company in utero for $375,000 at the 2021 Keeneland November Sale. The filly's granddam is My Baby Baby (Bernstein), another bargain-basement purchase ($50,000 ylg '06 FTKOCT) for trainer Ken McPeek who would go on to win the GIII Early Times Mint Julep Stakes en route to bankrolling over $509,000. B-Suzaki Bokujo
LA LA AVRIL (c, 2, Collected–She Is Bedazzling, by Medaglia d'Oro), a half-brother to 2023 GIII Chick Lang Stakes winner Ryvit (Competitive Edge), fetched $325,000 at last year's Keeneland September Sale, the priciest of 39 yearlings by his Airdrie-based sire reported as sold (52 ring) in 2023. The treble graded-placed second dam Melissa Jo (Fusaichi Pegasus) produced Joedini (Bernardini) and GSW High Dollar Woman (Super Saver). B-Curt Leake (KY)
6th-KYO, ¥13,720,000 ($91k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1800m
ROSSINIANA (c, 2, Not This Time–Dos Vinos, by Twirling Candy) breezed an eighth of a mile in :10 flat during this year's OBS March Sale and was knocked down to Katsumi Yoshida for $850,000, the second-dearest of his boom sire's 19 juveniles (20 ring) that sold this term. A Jan. 24 foal, the dark bay is the first to race out of a half-sister to SW China Grove (City Zip), herself the dam of the Grade III-placed Beach Walkn (Cross Traffic). B-Tom Durant (KY)
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MEISHO AINA (c, 2, Game Winner–Lilacs and Lilies, by Bodemeister) did not make any headlines at public auction after being RNAd for $45,000 at Keeneland September last fall, but there is pedigree appeal for this jurisdiction. The bay colt's dam is out of Refinement (Seattle Slew), whose GI Central Bank Ashland Stakes-winning daughter Lilacs and Lace (Flower Alley) produced Lucky Lilac (Jpn) (Orfevre {Jpn}), named the champion 2-year-old filly in Japan after taking out the 2017 G1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies before adding three more top-level triumphs. The colt's third dam, four-time Grade I winner Stella Madrid (Alydar), was the dam of champion Diamond Biko (Jpn) (Sunday Silence). B-Judy Hicks & Kathryn Nikkel (KY)
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