2022 Fasig-Tipton November Sale

[BaroqueAgain1]

"They do it in the wild" may be true, but evolution in wild animals only cares about continuing a species. It doesn't care if a mare dies at ten or twelve of foaling complications, so long as she has produced enough offspring to replenish her herd.
Wild 2yo fillies don't have a choice. We do. We can choose to treat our fillies & mares better, and we should.

[tachyon]

Blue Stripe and Grace Adler who were purchased by Narvick International were for Grand Farm of Japan.

Who is Grand Farm?

I found an Owner Breeder article from 2020 that says Yoshiyuki Ito’s Grand Farm. They bought Cherokee Maiden in 2020 and Bye Bye Baby in 2021. Cherokee Maiden's Kizuna filly went through the 2022 Select Weanling Sale and was sold by Grand Stud. So maybe that is the right name? All the US/EU articles have called it Grand Farm. They also bought Caledonia Road in 2018, her foal was in the sale, as well as Argentinian G1SW American Song(ARG)'s foal. In 2015 they bought Dreamwriter, a winning 1/2 sister to G1 Carpe Diem, J.B.'s Thunder, G2 Farrell. They bought Gardenia(FR) at some point, she is a 1/2 to MG1 Elusive Kate.

https://www.jbis.jp/seri/2022/10H1/sale/ Hip 476

Thanks for finding out Grand Stud's recent activity in the sales.
Yes, their official name is Grand Bokujo (in Japanese) and Grand Stud (in English).
I now understand that they are called Grand Farm in the US/EU.
Founded in 1927, Grand Stud is an owner / breeder that is located in Hidaka District, Hokkaido.

-- official links to Grand Stud
https://grandstud.jp/
https://twitter.com/grand_stud

Grand Stud also sent the Afleet mare Preeminence(JPN) and the Assatis mare Festival(JPN) to the US in 2004.
Festival won the G3 Dahlia Handicap in 2004.
Preeminence finished 5th to Star Parade(ARG) in the G1 Santa Maria Handicap in 2004.
Both mares became broodmares in the US and came back to Japan later.

Grand Stud shared picks of Preeminence on twitter recently.

https://twitter.com/grand_stud/status/1 ... 1498544128

I hope that their productions will make it to the big races in the US again!!

[brunanas]

thank you so much for doing this deeper research, tachyon!!! always so interesting

[tachyon]

thank you so much for doing this deeper research, tachyon!!! always so interesting

You are welcome!
I remember both Preeminence and Festival well.
Preeminence was a top dirt mare in Japan.
In 2004, two Japanese mares came to the US while I left from the US, haha.

[brunanas]

thank you so much for doing this deeper research, tachyon!!! always so interesting

You are welcome!
I remember both Preeminence and Festival well.
Preeminence was a top dirt mare in Japan.
In 2004, two Japanese mares came to the US while I left from the US, haha.

always thought you had been born in Japan

[tachyon]

thank you so much for doing this deeper research, tachyon!!! always so interesting

You are welcome!
I remember both Preeminence and Festival well.
Preeminence was a top dirt mare in Japan.
In 2004, two Japanese mares came to the US while I left from the US, haha.

always thought you had been born in Japan

I was born in Japan.
But I just lived in the US in between 1999 and 2004 without improving my English, haha.

[starrydreamer]

You are welcome!
I remember both Preeminence and Festival well.
Preeminence was a top dirt mare in Japan.
In 2004, two Japanese mares came to the US while I left from the US, haha.

always thought you had been born in Japan

I was born in Japan.
But I just lived in the US in between 1999 and 2004 without improving my English, haha.

My mom has lived in the US since 1977 without improving her English, so. Your written English is great compared to hers.

[tachyon]

always thought you had been born in Japan

I was born in Japan.
But I just lived in the US in between 1999 and 2004 without improving my English, haha.

My mom has lived in the US since 1977 without improving her English, so. Your written English is great compared to hers.

Thank you for saying that!
I'm still working on it posting in this forum.

[brunanas]

You are welcome!
I remember both Preeminence and Festival well.
Preeminence was a top dirt mare in Japan.
In 2004, two Japanese mares came to the US while I left from the US, haha.

always thought you had been born in Japan

I was born in Japan.
But I just lived in the US in between 1999 and 2004 without improving my English, haha.

also, i think your english is really great! though this comes from someone whose first language also isn't english