Palace Malice's Noble Roger Goes For Three Straight In Mainichi Hai
By Alan Carasso
Saturday, March 23, 2024
11th-HSN, Mainichi Hai-G3, ¥77.8m ($514k), 3yo, 1800mT
NOBLE ROGER (c, 3, Palace Malice–Noble Ready, by More Than Ready), a $70,000 OBS April breezer, was an impressive debut winner going a mile at Tokyo Nov. 12 and successfully negotiated the hike to group level with a cozy success in the G3 Nikkan Sports Sho Shinzan Kinen at Kyoto in early January (see below, SC 5). A May foal, Noble Roger is out of a multiple stakes-placed full-sister to GSW Zindaya, whose 'TDN Rising Star' son Carl Spackler (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) posted a career-best in last year's GII National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame S. at Saratoga. Noble Ready is also kin to US Grade I winner and British Group 3-placed Western Aristocrat (Mr. Greeley). Yuga Kawada has the riding assignment. B-Candy Meadows LLC (KY)