Circle Of Life is the third Gr1 winner for Epiphaneia winning Sunday’s Hanshin Juvenile Fillies (1600m).
Waited with towards the rear of the field passing halfway Circle Of Life began a wide sweeping move and was poised to challenge into the home straight, coming wider still to finish resolutely and reel in Lovely Your Eyes (Logotype) and Water Navillera (Silver State) to score by half a length.
Japan Cup winner Epiphaneia (Symboli Kris S) is also represented by Gr1 winners Daring Tact and Efforia.
Circle Of Life is 4×3 Sunday Silence and Daring Tact has Sunday Silence as her maternal grandsire while Efforia is out of a mare by Heart’s Cry (Sunday Silence).
All five of Epiphaneia’s stakes winners so far have a duplication of Sunday Silence with Gr2 winner Aristoteles and Listed winner Orthoclase both out of mares by Deep Impact.
Epiphaneia stands at Shadai Stallion Station where he is advertised at ¥18,000,000 for 2022.
Circle Of Life is the best winner from the immediate generations of her pedigree. She is one of three winners out of Sea Breeze Life (Harbinger), a winning half-sister to Listed placed Hargreaves (Empire Maker).
The third dam Star My Life (Storm Cat) is a half-sister to American Horse of the Year Lady’s Secret (Secretariat).