In this ongoing series, Alan Carasso takes a look ahead at US-bred and/or conceived runners entered for the upcoming weekend at the tracks on the Japan Racing Association circuit, with a focus on pedigree and/or performance in the sales ring. Here are the horses of interest for this weekend running at Toyko and Kyoto Racecourses, the latter of which plays host to a couple of interesting runners by the late Scat Daddy:
Saturday, November 18, 2017
4th-TOK, ¥13,400,000 ($119k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1400m
A May foal, KITASAN DAISY (f, 2, Violence&log=">Violence–The Calypso Myth, by Leroidesanimaux {Brz}) was a $20K KEENOV weanling in 2015 and changed hands for $35K as a KEESEP yearling. But the chestnut, out of a half-sister to GSW & GISP Midnight Strike (Smart Strike), put it all together over the next seven months and was knocked down for $320K after breezing an eighth in :10 1/5 at OBSAPR. That was the fourth most expensive of her freshman sire (by Medaglia d'Oro)'s 41 first-crop juveniles to sell this season. Like reigning Horse of the Year Kitasan Black (Jpn), Kitasan Daisy is campaigned by Ono Shoji. B-Blackstone Farm LLC (PA)
Sunday, November 19, 2017
9th-KYO, ¥19,000,000 (US$168k), Allowance, 2yo, 1400mT
A $225K KEESEP acquisiton, DERMA KISEKI (f, 2, Scat Daddy–Tashawak {Ire}, by Night Shift) took a multiple-horse photo to graduate on debut in June (video, gate 7), was a close fourth in Group 3 company trying winners for the first time and makes her first start since an allowance third Aug. 20. Her dam, winner of the 2002 G2 Falmouth S. for Sheikh Hamdan, is kin to SW & G1SP Acropolis (Ire) (Sadler's Wells). B-Freddie Bloodstock (KY)
12th-KYO, ¥34,620,000 ($307k), Allowance, 3yo/up, 1200m
GORGO BAROWS (c, 4, Scat Daddy–Molly Peaches, by Meadowlake) carries a record of 7-4-2-0 into this first appearance since a convincing course-and-distance victory as the 8-5 chalk Feb. 18 (video, gate 7) to take his earnings past US$450K. Sold in utero for $65K at the 2012 KEENOV sale, Gorgo Barows fetched $120K as a KEESEP yearling in 2014 and improved to realize $360K at OBSMAR the following spring. Mirco Demuro has the call. B-Hidden Brook Farm (KY)
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