By Alan Carasso
A colt from the initial crop of 2013 Japanese Horse of the Year Lord Kanaloa (Jpn) (King Kamehameha {Jpn}) fetched a final bid of ¥44.28 million (£303,309/€357,658/
US$390,811) to top Friday's Chiba Thoroughbred Sale (2YOs) held on the outskirts of Tokyo.
A total of 57 horses from 72 offered were reported as sold for gross receipts of ¥785.6 million. The average of ¥13,782,315 declined by 20.3% over 2016, while the median price of ¥10,800,000 was down by 6.5%.
The sales-topper, catalogued as lot 20, was bred and consigned by Shadai Farm and is a son of Koiuta (Jpn) (Fuji Kiseki {Jpn}), who upset the field in the 2007 G1 Victoria Mile at odds of 59-1 en route to being named champion older mare in Japan. She was also third in the Oka Sho (Japanese 1000 Guineas), then ungraded, in 2006. The dam of GSP Mikki Love Song (Jpn) (King Kamehameha {Jpn}), Koiuta is also a half-sister to SW & MGSP Veiled Impact (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) and to the dam of GSP Taisei Summit (Jpn) (Daiwa Major {Jpn}). The name of the winning bidder was not immediately available.
Shadai stallion Lord Kanaloa, the two-time winner of the G1 Hong Kong Sprint and a four-time Group 1 winner on home soil, was the leading sire by gross (¥105.3 million) and average (¥26.325 million) for four horses sold.
The sale's top filly, lot 53, was also bred and consigned by Shadai Farm. By 2010 G1 Investec Derby and G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Workforce (GB), the bay is a maternal granddaughter of US MGISW Stella Madrid (Alydar) and hails from the family of Japanese multiple Group 1 winner Mikki Isle (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) and Aerolithe (Jpn) (Kurofune), recent winner of the G1 NHK Mile Cup.
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