Imported mares and their offspring in Japan

BaroqueAgain1 · Fri Apr 04, 2014 3:23 pm

TVG has been showing races from Japan for a while, so I would normally be looking forward to seeing the Osaka Hai late Saturday night. However, TVG has only been promoting their newly acquired coverage of racing from Hong Kong for Saturday night/Sunday morning. I really hope we haven't lost Japanese racing in exchange for racing from Sha Tin and Happy Valley.

tachyon · Fri Apr 04, 2014 9:40 pm

BaroqueAgain1 wrote:TVG has been showing races from Japan for a while, so I would normally be looking forward to seeing the Osaka Hai late Saturday night. However, TVG has only been promoting their newly acquired coverage of racing from Hong Kong for Saturday night/Sunday morning. I really hope we haven't lost Japanese racing in exchange for racing from Sha Tin and Happy Valley.

They don't have Osaka Hai simply because it's not a grade 1 but a grade 2.
I would guess that they will continue to have grade 1's and their undercards in JRA.
Osaka Hai is probably one of the most competitive G2s in the world.

uma_nosuke · Sat Apr 05, 2014 11:11 pm

Osaka Hai (G2, 2000m, Hanshin)
INT DSN, Special Weight, 4-Year-Olds & Up, Open Class, Value of race: 119,360,000 Yen
ppf: http://keibagrant.cocolog-nifty.com/blo ... 140406.pdf

(*) The trainer of Tosen Gale, 2yo c out of Persistently (USA), is Yasutoshi Ikee while Yutaka Take might be his main rider. (Incidentally, I guess Azeri's colt 2013, owned by a woman, might be trained by Hideaki Fujiwara, the trainer of Eishin Flash.

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uma_nosuke · Sun Apr 06, 2014 7:45 am

Osaka Hai

Paddock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGuYTHVKV8I

Race Replay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekvba_rxIWI&hd=1
12.8―11.3―12.5―12.0―11.9―11.8―11.7―11.5―12.4―12.4　(2:00.3)

`I was wondering why he was the 2nd fav? Because I was confident of him.' (Yukata Take in an interview after the race)

Osaka Hai Result:
1. Kizuna
2. Tokai Paradise
3. Epiphaneia
4. Curren Mirotic
5. Shonan Mighty
6. Fragarach
7. Meisho Mambo
8. Beat Black

tachyon · Mon Apr 21, 2014 11:39 am

Wind In Her Hair(IRE) - dam of Deep Impact

pensioned at Northern Horse Park (April 2014)

serenassong · Tue Apr 29, 2014 8:22 am

tachyon wrote:Wind In Her Hair(IRE) - dam of Deep Impact

pensioned at Northern Horse Park (April 2014)

She has such big, beautiful eyes- how lovely is she?

tachyon · Thu May 01, 2014 9:57 am

Sunline wrote:Is there any info on these mares yet,I think some of them were breed to Deep Impact.

Absolutely (AUS)
Dubai Ice (AUS)
Hugin (AUS)
King's Rose (NZ)
Mosheen (AUS)
Shamrocker (NZ)
Southern Speed (AUS)

colt: Deep Impact(JPN) x Southern Speed(AUS)

photos by Nabecci-san

Sunline · Thu May 01, 2014 11:11 pm

thank you so much for the pic of Southern Speed's colt.Also Southern Speed has very soulful eyes.

He looks very cute.I want to touch his coat...it looks like velvet.

StoneRose · Tue May 06, 2014 4:18 am

Anybody know anything about Palace Rumor?

mariasmon · Tue May 06, 2014 10:11 am

Azerina Gakki is still at the track, right? She hasn't retired to the broodmare barn?

ChampionCurlin · Tue May 06, 2014 10:39 am

mariasmon wrote:Azerina Gakki is still at the track, right? She hasn't retired to the broodmare barn?

Azerina is a colt, so I hope not. I looked at the Azeri '13 foal's chart and it lists Azerina as 'in training'.
http://www.jrha.or.jp/select/2013/pe338.pdf

tachyon · Tue May 06, 2014 11:17 am

mariasmon wrote:Azerina Gakki is still at the track, right? She hasn't retired to the broodmare barn?

He couldn't make it to the track...
According to a blog report by Hochi (see below), Azeri's 2011 Zenno Rob Roy colt (Azerina Gakki) sustained a catastrophic injury before his debut and he became unable to stand up for himself last year.

http://weblog.hochi.co.jp/pog/2013/07/post-f6ba.html

ChampionCurlin · Tue May 06, 2014 11:40 am

tachyon wrote:
mariasmon wrote:Azerina Gakki is still at the track, right? She hasn't retired to the broodmare barn?
He couldn't make it to the track...
According to a blog report by Hochi (see below), Azeri's 2011 Zenno Rob Roy colt (Azerina Gakki) sustained a catastrophic injury before his debut and he became unable to stand up for himself last year.

http://weblog.hochi.co.jp/pog/2013/07/post-f6ba.html

Oh

tachyon · Tue May 06, 2014 11:41 am

ChampionCurlin wrote:
mariasmon wrote:Azerina Gakki is still at the track, right? She hasn't retired to the broodmare barn?
Azerina is a colt, so I hope not. I looked at the Azeri '13 foal's chart and it lists Azerina as 'in training'.
http://www.jrha.or.jp/select/2013/pe338.pdf

I presume that this chart (for the Select Sale in 2013) was prepared before Azerina's injury.

mariasmon · Tue May 06, 2014 12:09 pm

tachyon wrote:
mariasmon wrote:Azerina Gakki is still at the track, right? She hasn't retired to the broodmare barn?
He couldn't make it to the track...
According to a blog report by Hochi (see below), Azeri's 2011 Zenno Rob Roy colt (Azerina Gakki) sustained a catastrophic injury before his debut and he became unable to stand up for himself last year.

http://weblog.hochi.co.jp/pog/2013/07/post-f6ba.html

Why did I think Azerina Gakki was female? Thanks for the info, but sad news

uma_nosuke · Tue May 06, 2014 6:33 pm

Kizuna, 4yo colt out of Catequil (CA), 4th as the hot fav in the Tenno Sho last Sunday, turned out to have broken his leg during the race―details of the injury unknown―, and his plan to go to the Arc again would be canceled, a sports paper reported as a scoop this morning. Perhaps he might be retired soon because the owner declared that this season would be the last for him.

BaroqueAgain1 · Tue May 06, 2014 7:39 pm

That's unfortunate news, but I hope the injury is not life-threatening and Kizuna can have a happy retirement to the shed.

uma_nosuke · Wed May 07, 2014 8:55 am

Certainly not life-threatening.

(1) He suffered a fracture in the left fore intermediate carpal bone, which will take 6 months to heel (diagnosis by a vet).
(2) The trainer suggested the colt would have another season as a racehorse, saying 'I'm sure of his coming back.'

So the brown colt may be in training next year; no public announcement to that effect from the owner side yet.

Private Thoughts · Wed May 07, 2014 9:50 am

So this is two of Azeri's foals that have become injured and died? Kinda sad.

uma_nosuke · Wed May 07, 2014 10:37 am

Private Thoughts wrote:So this is two of Azeri's foals that have become injured and died? Kinda sad.

In Japan, Amelie, 2010 filly out of Azeri, is still in training. She'll be entered in a dirt 1400m (R12) at Kyoto on 10th May. Azeri's 2011 is by Zenno Roby Roy. Azeri's 2013, brown colt by Deep Impact, is still to come, and has a Lypherd cross, 4x5, which has been one of well-known successful cross patterns with DI's.

Kizuna is out of a different family.