The Japan Racing Horse Association (JRHA) will stage its Select Sale in Hokkaido on July 10 and 11. The auction, which takes places within the Northern Horse Park, features 231 yearlings and 243 foals.
The leading Japanese breeders are major buyers at international breeding stock sales and the catalogue for this year's sale features the offspring of many highly credentialed broodmares from across the globe. The foal and yearling sections both include half-sisters to former Japanese Horse of the Year Gentildonna (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}), by Drefong and the late Duremente (Jpn) respectively. Their dam Donna Blini (GB) (Bertolini) won the G1 Cheveley Park S. in Britain and the same family is represented by a filly from the first crop of Triple Crown winner Contrail (Jpn) out of Donna Blini's half-sister Little Book (GB) (Librettist), who subsequently found fame as the dam of Japanese Derby winner Roger Barows (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}).
Among the yearlings catalogued are colts by Kizuna (Jpn) out of the Australian Group 1 winner Youngstar (Aus) (High Chaparral {Ire}) and the Irish Oaks winner Covert Love (Ire) (Azamour {Ire}). The G1 Prix Marcel Boussac victrix Lily's Candle (Fr) (Style Vendome {Fr}) features as the dam of a yearling colt by Epiphaneia (Jpn), while also entered is a Bricks And Mortar colt out of the dual French Classic heroine La Cressonniere (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}).
The Japanese Government has recently announced that visitors to Japan will not be required to show proof of vaccination or undergo a pre-departure Covid test. A full list of entries for the sale can be found on the JRHA Select Sale website.
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