Re: California Chrome to Japan
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2021 12:23 am
Pretty big jump from 10K MCL to allowance.BaroqueAgain1 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:15 pm Hopefully she will be kept in allowance conditions now.
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Pretty big jump from 10K MCL to allowance.BaroqueAgain1 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:15 pm Hopefully she will be kept in allowance conditions now.
The Jessamine is a G2, not a G1Private Thoughts wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 5:25 am California Chrome has his first grade 1 winner!!! A turf winner at that, but a grade 1 win at Keeneland is impressive to me.
She's a gorgeous chrome chestnut like her father.
So happy for him.
https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing ... -jessamine
No need to apologize ..a G2 is still a nice prize !Private Thoughts wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 6:48 pm It was early, so I misread the article. Sorry about that.
As for folks losing sleep, I doubt it, I think people have a lot more important things to worry about.
Personally, watching his beautiful filly win that race was a sunny spot in a horrible world at present. So I will take little doses of happiness as they come.
I always thought he would be more likely a filly sire. The sires of that female family usually are. They just tend to be in pedigrees via their daughters. I also hope that being in a more turf geared territory will mean better overall results. He just usually doesn’t throw big burly horses that are needed for US sales and the consistent success on Us dirt.
As I mentioned above, Chrome actually has some stakes winning colts in Chile and Russia, all on dirt. Chrome has a stakes winning filly in Japan, again on dirt. Chrome also has a big strapping colt in Japan named Nephilim who won his 2nd start in very nice fashion. He is owned by Chiyoda Farm Shizunai and is out of Like A Million by Street Sense. He was exported to Japan in utero, so he is the first Japanese-bred Chrome offspring to race there and to win. Here's the video of Nephilim's win: https://twitter.com/JayRAye02/status/14 ... KlvmC_joN0 -- you can see how big he is compared to the other horses. It takes him awhile to get that big body moving.CorridorZ75 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 2:29 pmI always thought he would be more likely a filly sire. The sires of that female family usually are. They just tend to be in pedigrees via their daughters. I also hope that being in a more turf geared territory will mean better overall results. He just usually doesn’t throw big burly horses that are needed for US sales and the consistent success on Us dirt.
As for the ''Tokyo Cinderella Mile'' Cal Fragrance won, please refer to my post in other thread below.Ridan_Remembered wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 3:47 pm As I mentioned above, Chrome actually has some stakes winning colts in Chile and Russia, all on dirt. Chrome has a stakes winning filly in Japan, again on dirt. Chrome also has a big strapping colt in Japan named Nephilim who won his 2nd start in very nice fashion. He is owned by Chiyoda Farm Shizunai and is out of Like A Million by Street Sense. He was exported to Japan in utero, so he is the first Japanese-bred Chrome offspring to race there and to win. Here's the video of Nephilim's win: https://twitter.com/JayRAye02/status/14 ... KlvmC_joN0 -- you can see how big he is compared to the other horses. It takes him awhile to get that big body moving.![]()
It's very difficult to compare the level of stakes races among different racing jurisdictions, but the point is that Chrome's colts are doing quite nicely outside the U.S.
In Japan, he has been bred to some very nice mares, including by sires such as Deep Impact, Johannesburg, Sea the Stars, Frankel, Galileo, Neo Universe, and Harbinger to name a few. His first crop there are weanlings. I only just now found this forum after the thoroughbredchampions one disappeared, or I would have shared info and pictures of Chrome's first crop in Japan that we've seen on his Facebook pages.
Following is a list of Japan's National Association of Racing stakes. My best understanding is that they are a dirt racing association in Japan, but perhaps Tachyon could verify. The Chrome filly, Cal Fragrance, recently won a stakes that qualified her to run in the Rosita Memorial SI race. I don't know what SI means in terms of race level, but it seems to be a stepping stone to dirt graded races.
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Thanks very much, Tachyon. I have been attempting to better understand Japanese racing and race levels. People from Japan have been sharing information, tweets, photos and such on several Chrome Facebook pages. The language barrier makes it difficult to understand each other sometimes, but it's still very enjoyable to communicate with people around the world. The videos of the races are wonderful to watch.tachyon wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 8:49 am
As for the ''Tokyo Cinderella Mile'' Cal Fragrance won, please refer to my post in other thread below.
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JRA runs both turf races and dirt races, while almost all of NAR races on dirt.
And the list you posted above are the principal races at Minami (South) Kanto, one of the circuits in the NAR.
There are some other NAR circuits in other regions.
Yes now!
Hey CorridorZ75,CorridorZ75 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 25, 2021 11:53 pm The site that will eventually post the whole list of the mares bred to stallions is www.studbook.jp, but the 2021 data isn't up there yet. It works best to use the Japanese names of the sires.