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Friday, May 29, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here DIRECT TO YOUR INBOX EVERY MORNING 2020 STALLION FEES - PAGE 23 Yahagi and Lane Read Tomorrow's Issue For: to clash in Japanese Stakes Fields What's on Metropolitan meetings: Gold Coast (QLD) Derby for the ages Race meetings: Goulburn (NSW), Casino (NSW), Geelong (VIC), Cox Plate-winning trainer has potential Deep Impact heir Sunshine Coast (QLD) Barrier trials/ Jump-outs: Canterbury (NSW), Contrail, but Australian rider will attempt to bring him Goulburn (NSW), Casino (NSW), Flemington unstuck with Salios (VIC), Hobart (TAS) International meetings: Taipa (MAC) INTERNATIONAL SALES NEWS Son of Intello goes for €58,000 as Osarus hosts Damian Lane and Yoshito Yahagi SPORTPIX Europe's first online auction be the best known, but it is the Tokyo Yushun The Osarus Breeze-Up Sale broke new ground BY ANDREW HAWKINS | @ANZ_NEWS - the Japanese Derby - that offers the greatest on Wednesday by staging what was essentially rainer Yoshito Yahagi and jockey prize to owners, the highest liquidity for bettors Europe’s first bloodstock online auction, with Damian Lane combined to give and, increasingly, the most interest from a each of the 63 lots offered sequentially in absentia. Japan a first Cox Plate (Gr 1, 2040m) breeding perspective. The sale, originally due to be held in a win last year with Lys Gracieux Last year, almost US$235 million was wagered physical format at La Teste on April 8 and 9, (Heart’sT Cry), but on Sunday, they will be in on the Tokyo Yushun, almost one and a half times was forced to reschedule due to coronavirus opposing corners as they tackle the world’s the US$166 million handle on the Kentucky restrictions. To provide vendors with an outlet richest and most heavily-bet Classic, the Tokyo Derby. As for prize-money, the US$4 million of to sell their breezer, Osarus held the sale online Yushun (Gr 1, 2400m). the Japanese Derby outweighs the US$3 million with Managing Director Emmanuel Vivaud The Derby (Gr 1, 1m 4f) at Epsom may be Kentucky Derby purse and the US$2 million auctioning each lot via live stream. the original, the Kentucky Derby (Gr 1, 10f) may Epsom prize. Continued on page 2>> International Sales News page 18 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Yahagi and Lane to clash in Japanese Derby for the ages | 2 | Friday, May 29, 2020 << Continued from page 1 Financial statistics aside, the It is difficult Tokyo Yushun remains a crucial, since the breed-shaping race - the most horses are so young important of them all in Japan - at a time when, globally, Classic but is easily the horses are proving less attractive highest status race as a stallion prospect. The BEST OF to win each year Kentucky Derby, as a ten-furlong - Yuichi contest, is less affected than the Fukunaga standard mile-and-a-half Classic LUCK but, these days, it is a rarity that an Epsom Derby-winning three-year- To the Magic Millions graduates old stands out as an exciting potential sire. running in this weekend’s feature races In Japan, the Tokyo Yushun remains the race that every owner wants DOOMBEN (BRC) FRED BEST CLASSIC GR3 to win above all others - more than the Arima Kinen (Gr 1, 2500m) or the The Odyssey ..................... Millbrook CHAIRMAN’S HCP GR3 Japan Cup (Gr 1, 2400m) - and, generally, a lucrative career at stud awaits Grand Piano .............Arrowfiield Stud Cool Chap .................Coolmore Stud the winner and those in nearest pursuit. Scathing .................. Turangga Farm “For all Japanese horsemen, the Japanese Derby is a very special Magnufighter ..................... Sun Stud Shadow of Time ............ Lilivale Stud race to win,” jockey Yuichi Fukunaga, who won the Tokyo Yushun on Black on Gold ....Bylong Park T’breds Exhilarates .....................Vinery Stud Wagnerian (Deep Impact) in 2018, told ANZ Bloodstock News through an Etana ....................Willow Park Stud BELMONT (PERTH) interpreter yesterday. “It is difficult since the horses are so young but is Lota Creek Gold ............Raheen Stud easily the highest status race to win each year.” A Man to Match ...........Baramul Stud BELMONT SPRINT GR3 Man Booker ..................Korilya Stud Five of the top seven Japanese stallions in 2019 by earnings ran in the Savacool .............Blue Sky Premium Tokyo Yushun; among them were two winners, Deep Impact (Sunday Consignment Disposition .......... Peters Investments Silence) and King Kamehameha (Kingmambo), a runner-up in Heart’s Cry (Sunday Silence) and two who finished just behind the placegetters, Rulership (King Kamehameha) and Daiwa Major (Sunday Silence). Of the two others who did not run in the Tokyo Yushun, Stay Gold (Sunday Silence) was a late maturer who would add Group 1 wins at a mile and a half in the Hong Kong Vase (Gr 1, 2400m) and the Dubai Sheema Classic (Gr 1, 2400m), while Lord Kanaloa (King Kamehameha), despite being by a Derby winner, was campaigned as a sprinter-miler at home and abroad. With Japanese influence ever-increasing throughout the racing and bloodstock worlds, all eyes on Sunday afternoon will be on the Fuchu racecourse, 25 kilometres west of downtown Tokyo, in search of the next Deep Impact or King Kamehameha. Yahagi sends out the impressive Contrail (Deep Impact), who took the Hopeful Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m) as a late two-year-old before returning a dominant winner in the first leg of the Japanese Triple Crown, the Satsuki Sho (Gr 1, 2000m) - the Japanese 2,000 Guineas - at Nakayama last month. Fukunaga will take the ride on the unbeaten colt from gate five. Yuichi Fukunaga MASAKAZU TAKAHASHI Continued on page 4>> www.magicmillions.com.au Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Yahagi and Lane to clash in Japanese Derby for the ages | 4 | Friday, May 29, 2020 << Continued from page 2 Lane will be legged aboard Contrail’s main rival, Satsuki Sho runner-up Salios (Heart’s Cry). A juvenile Group 1 winner himself, having won the Asahi Hai Futurity (Gr 1, 1600m) in tremendous style last December, he is out of German mare Salomina (Lomitas), who won the Preis der Diana (Gr 1, 2200m), the German Oaks, for Australian Bloodstock before being sold to Katsumi Yoshida. He will jump from barrier 12 in the 18-horse field. It is Contrail, though, who shapes as a potential heir apparent for the late Deep Impact. Almost a year on from his death, it appears that the Japanese legend - a winner of seven Group 1 races in 2005 and 2006 and a sire of 46 Group 1 winners - may have unearthed his magnus opum, his pièce de résistance, the horse capable of matching his sire’s feats on the racetrack and who will be given the chance to emulate his success in the breeding barn. “I think he has the potential to be one of the greats,” Fukunaga said. Contrail JRA “He just keeps getting better and better so I am really looking forward to seeing the rest of his career. The sky seems to be the limit with this colt.” blue riband and has rarely finished far from the winner. He believes that Fukunaga has ridden many a top-liner: Cesario (Special Week) and the unbeaten Contrail is primed to add the Tokyo Yushun to his already her son Epiphaneia (Symboli Kris S), Just A Way (Heart’s Cry), Eishin burgeoning record, taking him to five wins from five starts. Preston (Green Dancer), Real Steel (Deep Impact) and Vivlos (Deep “From his form, his temperament and everything, he is the right Impact), among others. kind of horse to have going into the Derby,” he said. “Other than his dam While Fukunaga’s sole Derby win came on Wagnerian, the 43-year-old (Rhodochrosite), who raced at shorter distances, he has a pedigree that has been legged up on classy horses like Real Steel and Epiphaneia in the should get him there as well. Continued on page 6>> “Like Zoustar, a brilliant 2YO and outstanding 3YO. I am yet to see a colt share as many similarities to his champion young sire and that, I believe, is the reason he’ll make an elite stallion.” David Redvers, Tweenhills Stud and Qatar Racing and Bloodstock Manager ZOUSAIN Gr.2 winning 2YO, 3 x Gr.1 runner up. The best and fastest son of Zoustar. STANDING AT WIDDEN IN 2020 – $19,800 (inc. 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New Zealand: Gordon Calder Tel:+64 218 41612. www.coolmore.com Yahagi and Lane to clash in Japanese Derby for the ages | 6 | Friday, May 29, 2020 << Continued from page 4 “His form has continually gotten better as he has progressed in his career.