2024 Japanese Racing

[tachyon]

tachyon, was there any update about Hapi who was pulled up? I saw something about a (possibly) right foreleg injury...?

other than that I was really chuffed for Leontes to get his winner

JRA announced that Hapi (just) had a lameness in his right front leg.
I guess that he is okay.

[lurkey mclurker]

tachyon, was there any update about Hapi who was pulled up? I saw something about a (possibly) right foreleg injury...?

other than that I was really chuffed for Leontes to get his winner

JRA announced that Hapi (just) had a lameness in his right front leg.
I guess that he is okay.

good news, thank you!

[lurkey mclurker]

Go Durezza! I am not fazed by his unplaced effort in his seasonal debut; he should be sharper this go-round and stretches back out to a distance he should relish.

via twitter, because i thought durezza looked fantastic in the walking ring before the tenno sho - apparently he suffered from heat stroke & is off for a rest

https://twitter.com/LongBallToNoOne/sta ... 1681271875

https://keiba.sponichi.co.jp/news/20240 ... 000002000c

[Starine]

Thanks for the update regarding Durezza. He really is much better than what he showed, and now we know why.

[tachyon]

Misfortunes seldom come singly...

Carrot Club announced today that Durezza had a bone chip in his right front leg and it would take more than three months for recovery.

Sunday Racing announced today that champion Liberty Island developed a slight sesamoidean desmitis in her right front leg and she would prepare for her comeback in Autumn.

[tachyon]

T O Saint Denis is running in the Alysheba(G2) on the Kentucky Derby undercard.

https://twitter.com/KeibaKate/status/17 ... 2296505739

Kate Hunter's tweet was amusing!!

And T O Saint Denis is going to be ''the first Japanese trainee to ever run on the Oaks/Derby undercard''.
I guess that he will be a non-factor in the G2.
But I hope that he will just enjoy racing at Churchill Downs!

T O Saint Denis(JPN)(Kitasan Black) finished 2nd under Ryusei Sakai in the G2 Alysheba to earn his first black-type.
Like T O Saint Denis(JPN)(Copano Rickey) and Forever Young(JPN)(Real Steel), he is a great-grandson of Sunday Silence(USA).



https://en.netkeiba.com/db/horse/2019104079/
https://en.netkeiba.com/db/horse/result/2019104079/

[lurkey mclurker]

Misfortunes seldom come singly...

Carrot Club announced today that Durezza had a bone chip in his right front leg and it would take more than three months for recovery.

Sunday Racing announced today that champion Liberty Island developed a slight sesamoidean desmitis in her right front leg and she would prepare for her comeback in Autumn.

awww no liberty island but good that she's getting a rest, and lucky for durezza that they discovered it was more than just ("just") heat stroke, hope he will be able to come back as well.

edited cos i forgot abt bboard smilies

[tachyon]

Aron's Rod(JPN), 2022F. Epiphaneia(JPN) x Almond Eye(JPN) by Lord Kanaloa(JPN), has arrived at the Miho Training Center.
She will be trained by Sakae Kunieda.



-- videos:
https://twitter.com/TURF_DATA_/status/1 ... 8114762855
https://twitter.com/toshio_wada/status/ ... 90/video/1
https://twitter.com/tospo_keiba/status/ ... 4461168966

[tachyon]

I liked this BH report.
I thought it would be Interesting read to know more about the racing community and the fans in Japan that are interested in the Kentucky derby.

''JRA's Green Channel Brings Derby to Japanese Race Fans''
-- The Green Channel has 219,000 subscribers to its TV channel and 155,000 online --

https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing ... -race-fans

Despite it being a pay channel, the JRA makes some of the Green Channel's racing programming free to watch. This would include its Derby coverage. More than 4.5 million households will have the ability to watch this year's Kentucky Derby via satellite.

[tachyon]

And today, trainer Inao Okada revealed that T O Royal(JPN), Tenno Sho Spring winner last week, had a bone chip in his left front leg and underwent surgery yesterday. He said that it would take about three months for recovery.

[tachyon]

-- from TDN
''Clash Of Champions In NHK Mile Cup''

https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/c ... -mile-cup/

TOKYO 11R
THE NHK MILE CUP(G1)

May 5, 2024, 1600m, Turf, Post time 15:40
INT C&F DSN, Weight for Age, 3-Year-Olds, Open Class, Value of race: 253,520,000 Yen



Champions Ascoli Piceno and Jantar Mantar must be too strong.
But I would like to play with the longshots Di Speranza and Logi Leon here.

6, 3, 14, 16

[tachyon]

HorseRacingInJapan
@HorseRacing_JPN
·
#JRA NHK Mile Cup (G1, 15:40, May 5)
https://japanracing.jp/en/racing/schedu ... -mile.html
Barrier Draw https://japanracing.jp/_news2024/240503.html
http://japanracing.jp/en/racing/result/
Preview https://japanracing.jp/_news2024/240430-03.html
Comments https://japanracing.jp/_news2024/240503-02.html
Data Analysis https://japanracing.jp/_news2024/240430.html

[Palace Malice]

Jantar Mantar, Noble Roger, Gonbade Qabus! Let's go!!

[tachyon]

Jantar Mantar, Noble Roger, Gonbade Qabus! Let's go!!

Jantar Mantar(JPN) won impressively the G1 NHK Mile Cup for Palace Malice(USA)!!!
The 2023 2yo champion colt was much the best!!
I was glad that Logi Leon(JPN) came in 3rd.




-- replay (English)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YWQjE6tmlo

1st. Jantar Mantar(JPN) 2021C. Palace Malice(USA) x India Mantuana(USA) by Wilburn(USA)
2nd. Ascoli Piceno(JPN) 2021F. Daiwa Major(JPN) x Ascolti(JPN) by Danehill Dancer(IRE)
3rd. Logi Leon(JPN) 2021C. Leontes(JPN) x B B Barrel(JPN) by Pyro(USA)



Jantar Mantar(JPN)
https://www.jbis.jp/horse/0001350623/
6: 4-1-1

[Palace Malice]

Yay, very happy!

Lemaire is my favorite jockey but his riding on Ascoli Piceno was reckless, this was cringe

[CoronadosQuest]

So happy to see Palace doing so well as a sire over in Japan! Congratulations to Jantar Mantar(JPN) and his connections!!

[Starine]

The interesting thing about Jantar Mantar is he really has a dirt pedigree. But he certainly had found his niche at a mile on the lawn.

[tachyon]

Jantar Mantar(JPN)(Palace Malice) has been assigned 118 by the JRA handicapper, which is the highest-ever rating for a NHK Mile Cup winner!!
Both NHK Mile Cup winners King Kamehameha(JPN)(Kingmambo) and Schenell Meister(GER)(Kingman) had been rated 117.

Darley Japan must now be over the moon!!!

[tachyon]

-- from bloodhorse

''Namur Stands Out in Victoria Mile on HK and Dubai Form''
https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing ... dubai-form

TOKYO 11R
THE VICTORIA MILE(G1)

May 12, 2024, 1600m, Turf, Post time 15:40
INT F&M DSN, Special Weight, 4-Year-Olds & Up, Open Class, Value of race: 252,500,000 Yen



@HorseRacing_JPN
·
#JRA Victoria Mile (G1, 15:40, May 12)
https://japanracing.jp/en/racing/schedu ... toria.html
Barrier Draw https://japanracing.jp/_news2024/240510.html
Preview https://japanracing.jp/_news2024/240507-04.html
Comments https://japanracing.jp/_news2024/240510-02.html
Data Analysis https://japanracing.jp/_news2024/240507.html
Race Programme https://japanracing.jp/en/racing/result ... /2024.html

https://en.netkeiba.com/race/special.ht ... op_special

[tachyon]

14th favorite Ten Happy Rose(JPN)(Epiphaneia) won the G1 Victoria Mile 1600m turf at Tokyo on May 12th 2024 off odds 208/1.
That was the first graded win for the 6yo mare and the first G1 for the jockey Akihide Tsumura.
She is trained by Daisuke Takayanagi who recently saddled T O Password & T O Saint Denis at Churchill Downs.



-- replay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AjpVIBYsJI


Ten Happy Rose(JPN) : 2018M. Epiphaneia(JPN) x Fatal Rose(JPN) by Tanino Gimlet(JPN)
https://en.netkeiba.com/db/horse/2018104750/