The rise of Sunday Silence

[Starine]

Thanks for the update. He's a very handsome animal.

[tachyon]

Gentildonna(JPN) was inducted into the Hall of Fame in Japan.


Gentildonna with her first foal (filly) by King Kamehameha

-- Hall of Fame voting result 2015
(To be inducted, a horse must gather over 75% voters. Each voter has four votes.)

Gentildonna 78.3% (inducted)
Lord Kanaloa 63.1%
Buena Vista 57.1%
Special Week 43.4%
Victoire Pisa 27.3%
Just a Way 23.7%
Daiwa Scarlet 16.2%
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32 horses have been inducted to Hall of Fame in Japan to date.
Recent inductees (and inducted year) include;

Gentildonna(JPN) (2016) (Deep Impact)
Orfevre(JPN) (2015) (Stay Gold)
El Condor Pasa(USA) (2014)
Vodka(JPN) (2011)
Deep Impact(JPN) (2008) (Sunday Silence)
T.M. Opera O(JPN) (2004)
Taiki Shuttle(USA) (1999)
Narita Brian(JPN) (1997)
Tokai Teio(JPN) (1995)
Mejiro McQueen(JPN) (1994)
Oguri Cap(JPN) (1991)

[Treve]

I am sure you saw but Maka-Kun won his Arc prep

[lurkey mclurker]

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat... Buena Vista isn't in the HOF yet????

[tachyon]

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat... Buena Vista isn't in the HOF yet????

Buena Vista(JPN)(Special Week) is probably the unlukiest girl in the Japanese racing history.
She had 6 G1 wins, but she had to settle for 2nd place in 7 G1 events, too.
The 2010 Japan Cup especially, in which she was demoted to 2nd place due to Christophe Soumillon's careless ride in the home stretch, remains one of the bitterest memories to me.

-- replay of the 2010 Japan Cup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsmcKWZatno

Buena Vista: #16
Rose Kingdom: #6
http://www.jbis.jp/race/result/20101128/105/10/

Buena Vista(JPN)
http://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000989286/
23-9-8-3

[lurkey mclurker]

I remember that race, and I was equally incensed that she was knocked down to second.

Please tell me Vodka is in the HOF, at least?? eta n/m, I looked back up in your post and yay she is

[tachyon]

Vermouth(JPN), 1997M. Sunday Silence(USA) x Legacy of Strength(USA) by Affirmed(USA), became the 25th daughter of Sunday Silence(USA) to produce G1 winner, when Red Falx(JPN)[2011H. by Swept Overboard(USA)] won in the G1 Sprinters Stakes 1200m turf at Nakayama on Oct 2nd 2016.

Vermouth(JPN) is a full sister to G1 winner Stinger(JPN)
http://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000316397/

-- replay (English)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahH_cHwS9S8
1st. (#13) Red Falx(JPN)
http://www.jbis.jp/horse/0001134867/

[lurkey mclurker]

Oooh seeing Red Falx reminds me - tachyon, have you heard anything about Gold Ship being sick or anything lately? He looked a little thin to me in some pics from nabecci's Twitter feed... could be the angles, and I know he's getting plenty of grass and hay, but they look a bit odd... ?

https://twitter.com/nabecci/status/780876458264760321
https://twitter.com/nabecci/status/774509697600724992

but then again in others he looks perfectly fine - like here, if you don't look at the last one

https://twitter.com/nabecci/status/774510692296568832

[Starine]

With those black blinkers and blue shadow roll, Red Falx looks like a Bob Baffert trainee

[Treve]

Oooh seeing Red Falx reminds me - tachyon, have you heard anything about Gold Ship being sick or anything lately? He looked a little thin to me in some pics from nabecci's Twitter feed... could be the angles, and I know he's getting plenty of grass and hay, but they look a bit odd... ?

https://twitter.com/nabecci/status/780876458264760321
https://twitter.com/nabecci/status/774509697600724992

but then again in others he looks perfectly fine - like here, if you don't look at the last one

https://twitter.com/nabecci/status/774510692296568832

He looks ribby but it's possible it is due to simply being out of racing condition then being slow to put 'fat' weight back on.
(Also possible he got sick or stressed out, just sayin' it doesn't have to be that)

[tachyon]

I think that Gold Ship(JPN) is fine.

https://twitter.com/chihiro_gs/status/7 ... 76?lang=ja
https://twitter.com/chihiro_gs/status/7 ... 99?lang=ja
(@chihiro_gs is a wonderful twitter account, too) <--- you may find the most recent pick of Lani(USA) who has just come back on the worktab at Ritto Training Center as she retweeted

[tachyon]

Victoire Pisa(JPN)(Neo Universe) sired his first European winner, when his 2yo Warring States(JPN)[o/o Cilege(JPN) by Sakura Bakushin O(JPN)] won his debut impressively going 1600m turf at Hoppengarten, Germany, on Oct 3rd 2016.

-- replay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmDPgkaEuMk

Victoire Pisa(JPN)

standing at Shadai Stallion Station
http://www.jbis.jp/horse/0001046333/

Warring States(JPN)
http://www.jbis.jp/horse/0001186181/

[Sparrow Castle]

Japanese Champ Leontes Retired

Leontes (Jpn) (King Kamehameha {Jpn}–Cesario {Jpn}, by Special Week {Jpn}), the 2015 champion 2-year-old colt in Japan, has been retired from the races with a tendon injury, according to published reports.

http://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/ja ... s-retired/

[lurkey mclurker]

Awwwww man. I really wanted to see what he could do as a three-year-old or older.

[tachyon]

Leontes(JPN) will stand at Breeders Stallion Station.

[tachyon]

Dance Partner(JPN), one of the most beloved daughters of Sunday Silence, died of laminitis at Shadai Farm on Oct 14th 2016. She was 24.
R.I.P.



Dance Partner as she won the G1 Japanese Oaks in 1995

Dance Partner(JPN): 1992M. Sunday Silence(USA) x Dancing Key(USA) by Nijinsky(CAN)
http://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000262374/

[Treve]

Vivlos (Deep Impact) takes the Satsuki Sho! The full sister to Verxina (who was a runner up in all three classics behind Gentildonna) finished the 2000m test in 1:58.60 on firm turf.
http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/ ... ka-sho-win

[Starine]

Vivlos (Deep Impact) takes the Satsuki Sho! The full sister to Verxina (who was a runner up in all three classics behind Gentildonna) finished the 2000m test in 1:58.60 on firm turf.
http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/ ... ka-sho-win

Is she a true black? I have seen that one or two places and couldn't tell from the photos.

[tachyon]

Vivlos (Deep Impact) takes the Satsuki Sho! The full sister to Verxina (who was a runner up in all three classics behind Gentildonna) finished the 2000m test in 1:58.60 on firm turf.
http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/ ... ka-sho-win

Is she a true black? I have seen that one or two places and couldn't tell from the photos.

Like her sister Verxina, Vivlos is registered as black.


Vivlos Oct 6 2016

Vivlos Oct 7 2015

http://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000727544/broodmare/info/

[BaroqueAgain1]

Lovely. She looks like Black Minx (for you Walter Farley fans out there ).