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Sodashi would be the first registered white color Thoroughbred to win a Grade 1 race in Japan, if she succeeds on Sunday
This coming Sunday and next, the Japan Racing Association turns the spotlight onto the budding talent in this season s 2-year-olds and it s ladies first with the Grade 1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies on Dec. 13, followed by the Asahi Hai Futurity Stakes the week after, also at Hanshin Racecourse.
The 72nd Hanshin Juvenile Fillies sees 20 fillies nominated for a full deck of 18 with many of those set to take on their first top-level race having only a few starts underneath their belts – some only one. The runners will carry 54kg over 1,600 meters (one mile) on the outer turf course at Hanshin, located west of Osaka in neighboring Hyogo Prefecture.