Tuesday’s Hopeful Stakes (2000m) for 2yos at Nakayama Killer Ability is SW185 and the 54th Gr1 winner for Deep impact. Settled in third place in the final Gr1 contest of the turf season in Japan as Grand Line set a steady speed, Killer ability came with his challenge early in the home straight and stayed
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Snowfall is SW175 for Deep Impact winning Wednesday’s Gr3 Musidora Stakes (10f 56y) for 3yo fillies at York. Allowed an uncontested lead in this traditional Oaks trial under Ryan Moore, Snowfall set steady fractions until beginning to quicken for home three furlongs out and was untroubled in the run to the line to defeat the
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Bathrat Leon is SW11 for Kizuna leading all the way in Saturday’s Gr2 New Zealand Trophy (1600m) at Nakayama. Bathrat Leon led virtually all the way and was untroubled to defeat Time To Heaven (Lord Kanaloa) by five lengths with City Rainbow (Epiphaneia) in third. He is the only foal to race out of Bathrat
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Saturday’s Gr3 Daily Hai Queen Cup (1600m) at Tokyo winner Akaitorino Musume is SW169 for Deep Impact. Midfield with cover to the home turn, Akaitorino Musume loomed large into the home straight, reaching the lead inside the final 100m and then holding the late rally from Art de Vivre (King Kamehameha) to score by a
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Contrail duly claimed this year’s Kikuka Sho (Japanese St Leger) to become the third undefeated Triple Crown winner after Symboli Rudolf (1984) and his sire Deep Impact (2005) and the eighth colt to win all three classics. Racing at 3,000m for the first time, Contrail raced worse than midfield until the home straight where the
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Last year’s Oka Sho winner and this year’s Yasuda Kinen winner Gran Alegria rushed home to win Sunday’s Gr1 Sprinters Stakes (1200m) at Nakayama. Slowly away and second last early, Gran Alegria was reserved for one run in the home straight by Christophe Lemaire and did not disappoint, accelerating past all her rivals to reach
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Centelleo is SW160 for Deep Impact winning Sunday’s Gr2 Sankei Sho All Comers (2200m) at Nakayama. it is the fifth win from 16 starts for Centelleo, a 5yo sister to Gr1 Emirates Stakes at Flemington and Gr1 Toorak Handicap at Caulfield winner Tosen Stardom, now at stud in Australia, and three-quarter sister to Gr2 Shimbun
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Fierce Impact enjoyed a trouble-free run to win Saturday’s Gr1 Makybe Diva Stakes (1600m) at Flemington. In a race marred by a fatal mid-race injury to last year’s winner Gatting, Fierce Impact was settled behind the early speed by Mark Zahra and was able to come through between horses early in the straight and then
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Katara is SW159 for Deep Impact after comfortably winning Saturday’s Chalice Stakes (12f) at Newmarket. Waited with midfield by Oisin Murphy, Katara was delivered to challenge two furlongs out and ran on strongly up the hill to defeat Expressionism (Galileo) by four-lengths with Cosmic Princess (Kingman) filling third place. Bred and raced by Al Shaqab,
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A new record price for a yearling was established at the opening session of the JRHA Select Sale on Monday as a colt by the late Deep Impact sold for ¥510,000,000. The lot is a half-brother to Kentucky Oaks winner Cathryn Sophia out of the unraced Sheave, consigned by Northern Farm, and sold for ¥510,000,000
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