Light Quantum (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) remained perfect to graduate to the group ranks while taking on the boys for the first time with an impressive rallying victory in the G3 Nikkan Sports Sho Shinzan Kinen at Chukyo on Sunday.
The public's second choice at odds of 2-1 in this 1600-metre affair hopped a bit from the gate and was taken way back early, rating in front of just two rivals for more than 800 metres as Pace Setting (GB) (Showcasing {GB}) showed the way. As the early leader rounded the far bend, the winner began her rally and was swung wide into the stretch with more than a dozen lengths to close on the frontrunner. While racing out in the center of the course for clear running room she ran down all of her tiring rivals in the last 200 meters and pulled away for a length victory over a determined Pace Setting. Toho Galleon (Jpn) (Real Steel {Jpn}) was third another length back.
Pedigree Notes:
A front-running winner of a 1600-metre Tokyo newcomers' affair in November, Light Quantum is the first foal out of 2016 GI Gamely S. winner Illuminant (Quality Road), who also won the GII Monrovia S. in 2017 and sold for $1.1 million at Fasig-Tipton November to Shadai Farm later that year. Her dam has a yearling filly by American Horse of the Year Bricks And Mortar, and Illuminant was covered by Epiphaneia (Jpn) last year. Light Quantum is from the last crop of 11-time Japanese Champion Sire and Hall of Famer Deep Impact and his 154th group winner. Her granddam is the multiple stakes winner Sparkling Number (Polish Numbers), who herself is a half-sister to Smart Sunny (Smarten). Her third dam is the Grade III winner Sunny Sparkler (Sunny Clime).
Sunday, Chukyo, Japan
NIKKAN SPORTS SHO SHINZAN KINEN-G3, ¥72,800,000, Chukyo, 1-8, 3yo, 1600mT, 1:33.70, fm.
1–LIGHT QUANTUM (JPN), 119, f, 3, by Deep Impact (Jpn)
1st Dam: Illuminant (GISW, $536,243), by Quality Road
2nd Dam: Sparkling Number, by Polish Numbers
3rd Dam: Sunny Sparkler, by Sunny Clime
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN, 1ST GROUP WIN. O-Shadai Race Horse;
B-Shadai Farm (Jpn); T-Koshiro Take; J-Yutaka Take;
¥40,308,000. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, ¥47,308,000. Click for
the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Werk Nick
Rating: A+++. *Triple Plus*. Click for the
eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Pace Setting (GB), 123, c, 3, Showcasing (GB)–Jet Setting
(Ire), by Fast Company (Ire). 1ST BLACK TYPE. 1ST GROUP
BLACK TYPE. O-Silk Racing; B-Northern Farm (Jpn);
¥16,088,000.
3–Toho Galleon (Jpn), 123, c, 3, Real Steel (Jpn)–Devil's Corner,
by Songandaprayer. (¥86,000,000 yrl '21 JRHAJUL). 1ST BLACK
TYPE, 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. O-Toho Inc.; B-Northern
Farm (Jpn); ¥10,044,000.
Margins: 1, 1, NK. Odds: 2.00, 4.40, 5.80.
Also Ran: Suzuka Double (Jpn), Sunrise Peace (Jpn), Shinzen Izumo (Jpn), Kvasir (Jpn). Click for the JRA Chart.
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