TDN New Stallions: Yoshida, at WinStar

A top-class racehorse on the track, Yoshida was as durable as he was successful, winning $2.5 million, split almost equally between dirt and turf. In the last two years of his career, he ran 10 times-nine in Grade I races, and once in a Grade II. A TDN Rising Star out of his first start at Keeneland, he went on to win the GI Woodward in his first start on the dirt, and the GI Old Forester Turf Classic S., earning a 106 Beyer. Kelsey Riley stopped by WinStar Farm to talk with David Hanley about the first-year stallion.

Yoshida could be the heir to his grandsire, Sunday Silence, in America. Not only was he a grade one winner on both dirt and turf, but he was ultra-tough racing through ages two through five.

There are a few really interesting things to observe in his pedigree. First of all, he's by a son of Sunday Silence, Heart's Cry, who was a top racehorse himself. But interestingly, when you look at Sunday Silence and you look at Deep Impact and now Heart's Cry-both really incredible stallions-they're bred very similarly. Deep Impact is out of a mare called Wind In Her Hair (Ire) who was by Alzao, who's by Lyphard.

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