By Alan Carasso
Those who backed Australian Bloodstock and partners' Tosen Stardom (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) at 11-2 would have been cursing their collective fates in Saturday's G1 Emirates S., as the son of Deep Impact (Jpn) was disappointed for a run with time ticking away. But Damian Lane kept hope alive and when the split materialized between horses at the furlong grounds, Tosen Stardom 'dropped out of the sky' as commentator Matt Hill described and flew home to grab the spoils.
Relegated to the latter third of the Emirates field after a slow dispatch, Tosen Stardom remained inside and crept his way into a midfield berth at the halfway point. Always traveling well beneath Lane, but with a wall of horses straight ahead, Tosen Stardom was checked off heels at the 300m, with no apparent escape. But the gap came between Odeon (NZ) (Zacinto {GB}) and It's Somewhat (Dynaformer) soon after and Tosen Stardom squeezed through before really leaping out of the ground in the final half-furlong. Happy Clapper (Aus) (Teofilo {Ire}) outfinished It's Somewhat for second.
“That was the real Tosen Stardom today,” trainer Darren Weir told Racing.com. “That's the sort of ability we knew he had and thankfully we've been able to see it today.”
A multiple Group 3 winner in his native Japan, Tosen Stardom was having his ninth start in Australia since being imported permanently a little more than a year ago. Placed in the G1 Futurity S. (1400m) last February and G1 Memsie S. Sept. 2, he broke through in the Oct. 14 G1 Toorak H. (1600m) at Caulfield, but was a latest eighth in last Saturday's G1 Cantala S. (1600m) at this venue.
Pedigree Notes…
Tosen Stardom cost ¥262.5 million (US$3.1 million) to easily top the yearling section of the 2012 JRHA Select Sale and is out of a winning half-sister to G1 Tenno Sho (Autumn) winner Tosen Jordan (Jpn) (Jungle Pocket), GSW & G1SP Tosen Homareboshi (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) and MGSP Dark Message (Jpn) (Dance in the Dark {Jpn}). The dam of Tosen Stardom's 2-year-old full-sister Centelleo (Jpn), Admire Kirameki did not produce foals when bred to Orfevre (Jpn) in each of the last two years.
Saturday, Flemington, Australia
EMIRATES S. (LKS Mackinnon S.)-G1, A$2,005,000, VRC, 11-11, 3yo/up, Open WFA, 2000mT, 2:01.22, Good.
1–TOSEN STARDOM (JPN) , 59.0, h , 6, by Deep Impact (JPN)
1st Dam: Admire Kirameki (JPN), by End Sweep (USA)
2nd Dam : Every Whisper (JPN), by Northern Taste (CAN)
3rd Dam: Crafty Wife (USA), by Crafty Prospector (USA)
(¥262,500,000 Wlg 2012 Jrha J.R.H.A. Select Sale) O-Australian
Bloodstock No 2, Doonaree Racing, Power Thoroughbreds, Get
The Dukes Out Racing, Australian Bloodstock, T Shimakawa, K
Yoshida, A Kheir, J Bromley, A Brogan, J Stumer, G; B-Northern
Racing; T-D K Weir; J-Damian Lane; A$1,205,000. Lifetime
Record: MGSW-Jpn, 25-7-3-1, A$3,360,607. *1/2 to Neo
Stardom (Jpn) (Neo Universe {Jpn}), SP-Jpn, $735,170. Werk
Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.[bullet ad=”irt-shell”]2–Happy Clapper, 59.0, g, 7, Teofilo (IRE)–Busking, by Encosta
de Lago. O-M W Thomas; B-Mr M Thomas ACT; T-P J Webster;
J-B Shinn; A$360,000.
3–It's Somewhat (USA), 59.0, g, 6, Dynaformer (USA)–
Sometime (IRE) , by Royal Academy (USA). O-Godolphin; B-B.P.
Walden Jr, P.W. Madden Et Al (KY); T-James Cummings; J-B
Avdulla; A$180,000.[bullet ad=”irt-shell”][bullet ad=”us-bred-ky-bred-keen-grad”]Margins: 1.5 len, 1.7 len, 1.8 len
Also Ran: The Taj Mahal (IRE), Folkswood (GB), Cliff's Edge, Harlem (GB), Odeon (NZ), Sense of Occasion, So Si Bon, Gailo Chop (FR), Samovare.
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