Notable US-Bred & -Sired Runners in Japan: Jan. 23 & 24, 2021
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Updated: January 21, 2021 at 4:08 pm
Equi-Sport
Alan Carasso
In this continuing series, we take 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 Chukyo and Nakayama Racecourses:
Saturday, January 23, 2021
($110k), Newcomers, 3yo, 1200m
MIRATIO (f, 3, Verrazano–My Fast One, by Elusive Quality) is the latest to make the races from her dam, a half-sister to SW No Mo Dough (Uncle Mo), whose daughter Lecce Baroque (Uncle Mo) made an enormous impression in Japan last season, winning her first two starts by a combined 19 lengths, including a 10-length debut score around this time last year. This is also the deeper female family of the popular handicap
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Spielberg nails The Great One on the wire in the Los Alamitos Futurity
Trainer Bob Baffert ran his winning streak to seven in the Los Alamitos Futurity on Saturday, but it wasn t easy.
Spielberg, a $1-million yearling purchase by Union Rags, needed every inch of the 1 1/16 miles of the Grade 2 race at the Cypress, Calif., track to catch the front-running 30-1 long shot The Great One, but jockey Flavien Prat got him up in the final jump. The victory was the 13th in the Futurity for the Hall of Fame trainer since Real Quiet won in 1997, when the race was run at Hollywood Park. The Inglewood, Calif., track ran its last race in 2013 and is now the site of an NFL football stadium. Baffert horses have won every running since the race moved to Los Alamitos in 2014.
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