TUESDAY, 16 JULY 2019 PEDIGREE INSIGHTS: JAPAN THE WEEKLY WRAP: By Andrew Caulfield JAPAN TO THE FORE Thanks to the victories of Anthony Van Dyck in the Derby, Circus Maximus in the St James's Palace S. and Sovereign in the Irish Derby, the great Galileo owed three of his first five Group 1s of 2019 to granddaughters of Danehill. This suggested that time is moving on from the days when the perennial champion sire's partnership with Danehill's daughters was widely considered the world's pre-eminent nick. This nick had produced the wonderful total of 50 black-type winners--some 17% of its 303 foals--and those 50 featured the Classic winners Frankel, Intello, Golden Lilac, Roderic O'Connor and Cima de Triomphe. The cross's first 12 Group 1 winners also included such illustrious performers as Teofilo, Highland Reel, Noble Mission and Maybe. That 17% black-type winners compares to Galileo's overall figure of 11%. Cont. p7 Cheval Grand & Yusuke Oe in Newmarket | Emma Berry IN TDN AMERICA TODAY INDUSTRY HAS MADE STRIDES ON SLAUGHTER ISSUE, BUT MORE CAN BE DONE By Emma Berry In the first of a two-part series, Bill Finley examines how the Over the last few months we=ve had a number of overseas industry has made progress on the horse slaughter issue. Click or equine visitors in our midst in Newmarket ahead of Royal Ascot tap here to go straight to TDN America. and on Saturday morning a new face appeared on the heath. Cheval Grand (Jpn) (Heart=s Cry {Jpn}), the winner of the Japan Cup in 2017, ventured outside Japan for the first time earlier this year when travelling to Meydan for the G1 Dubai Sheema Classic, in which he finished runner-up to Old Persian (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}). He will remain in the UK for the G1 King George VI & Queen Elizabeth S. followed by the G1 Juddmonte International before returning to his home country for a fourth tilt at the Japan Cup, a race in which he has finished in the first four in three attempts. In many respects, Cheval Grand typifies his country=s approach to racing and breeding. A grandson of Sunday Silence out of Halwa Sweet (Jpn) (Machiavellian), a daughter of the well-credentialed import Halwa Song (Nureyev), he is still racing at the highest level as a 7-year-old stallion and, more importantly, he won=t be shunned when he retires to stud himself. His best runs have all come at a mile and a half but he has also twice been runner-up in the G1 Tenno Sho over two miles. Cheval Grand boasts a proper pedigree. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 12 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 16 JULY 2019 FarmCand Northern Horse Park, where the sale was heldCis the property of Katsumi Yoshida and was responsible for 181 of the Japan to the Fore Cont. from p1 455 horses offered for sale. One only needs to glance at a list of mares owned by Katsumi, His fourth dam is Glorious Song, whose sons or his brother Teruya Yoshida at Shadai Farm, to imagine the include Singspiel (Ire) (a name which pops up vast investment they have made in plucking the best pleasingly frequently in Japanese pedigrees) broodmares from all corners of the world. Their reward is found and Rahy, while his dam=s half-brother in the sales ring and on the racecourse, not to mention in the Martinborough (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) is at high regard in which Japanese gallopers are held the world over. stud in France. Halwa Sweet has also produced G1 Dubai Turf winner Vivlos (Jpn) (Deep A First for Japan Impact {Jpn}) as well as her full-sister, the dual Grade 1-winning There are six entries from Japan for the G1 Prix de l=Arc de miler and Japanese Oaks and Guineas runner-up Verxina (Jpn). Triomphe, the race which looms largest on the country=s To date, Cheval Grand has won just over -1 billion international wishlist. Deep Impact himself came to Paris in 2006 (,7.4m/i8.2m) in prize-money from his 30 starts. These sort of to challenge for France=s biggest prize but, after finishing third returns are of course a key driver in ensuring that wealthy past the post was later disqualified when a banned substance businessmen and women continue to invest heavily in the was found in a post-race sample. Japanese racing scene, as witnessed at last week=s If Japan is first past the post this year, it could well be the record-breaking JRHA Select Sale, where turnover reached British-bred Galileo (Ire) colt from Ballydoyle, who loomed -20.5 billion (,151m/i168m) from the sale of 416 foals and menacingly in the Derby when a close third to his stablemate yearlings across two days. There was no one dominant buyer, Anthony Van Dyck (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and then posted one of but the vendors= list was dominated by one entity: Cheval the best performances of Royal Ascot in the G2 King Edward VII Grand=s breeder, Northern Farm. The largest of the three S. separate operations run by the Yoshida brothers, Northern Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 12 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 16 JULY 2019 The Weekly Wrap Cont. His follow-up on Sunday when landing his first win at the highest level in the Grand Prix de Paris certainly makes him a credible threat to Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) in her bid for an historic third Arc victory. Japan is another feather in the cap of his breeder Newsells Vice President, International Operations Gary King Park Stud, which is enjoying a good season courtesy of the likes Twitter: @garykingTDN of Soffia (GB), Demarchelier (GB) and Tapisserie (GB), and also [email protected] stands Enable=s sire. Japan is out of the Danehill mare Shastye + 1.732.320.0975 (Ire), who has provided Andreas Jacobs=s operation with some notable moments on the track and in the sales ring. Japan=s International Editor full-siblings Secret Gesture (GB) and Sir Isaac Newton (GB) are Kelsey Riley both group winners, the former having finished runner-up in the Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN Oaks and German Oaks. Sir Isaac Newton was a 3.6 million gns [email protected] October yearling and subsequent years have seen Shastye European Editor become a darling of Book 1, with her offspring selling for Emma Berry 800,000gns, 1.35m gns, 1.3m gns (Japan) and 3.4m gns. That Twitter: @collingsberry final price was given for Japan=s brother Mogul (GB), who was [email protected] the second-top lot of the most recent Tattersalls October Sale behind a full-brother to Too Darn Hot (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) and is Associate International Editor also in training at Ballydoyle. Heather Anderson Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN It=s A Kind Of Magic Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen [email protected] Contributing Editor Alan Carasso Twitter: @EquinealTDN Cafe Racing Sean Cronin Tom Frary [email protected] Irish Correspondent Daithi Harvey Spanish Mission claims the Bahrain Trophy | Racing Post Regular Columnists Japan is of course a product of the Galileo-Danehill cross which Chris McGrath | Andrew Caulfield was lent an extra magic sparkle by Frankel (GB). Repeat matings John Berry | Kevin Blake of his dam Kind (Ire) with the champion sire resulted in another multiple Group 1 winner who in any other family would be a standout. In the case of Noble Mission (GB), who completed his racing career with victory in the same race in which Frankel took IN TDN AUS/NZ TODAY his bow, he=s destined always to be remembered for his relationship to the champion, but he is also proving that Lane=s Q&A WITH ANDREW WILLIAMS End Farm=s faith in him as a stallion prospect was not misguided. TDNAusNZ speaks with Andrew Williams of Andrew Williams Cont. p4 Bloodstock. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Aus/NZ. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 12 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 16 JULY 2019 The Weekly Wrap Cont. In Newmarket last week Frankel was all the rage as his son New King (GB) topped the Tattersalls July Sale at 450,000gns and daughter Veracious (GB) became his eighth Group 1 winner in the Falmouth S. Noble Mission was also involved in the stakes-race results, however, via his G3 Bahrain Trophy-winning son Spanish Mission, who could well be aimed at the St Leger after his impressive staying performance. Spanish Mission, trained by David Simcock for The Hon. Earle Mack and Team Valor, is the second group/graded winner for his sire this year after Code Of Honor, winner of the GII Fountain of Youth S. The latter was subsequently runner-up in the Kentucky Derby and followed up with another win in the GIII Dwyer S. on July 6. All five of Kind=s sons of racing age have ended up at studCBullet Train (GB) (Sadler=s Wells) and Proconsul (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) are now in Ireland while Morpheus (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) is in FranceCand her listed-winning daughter Joyeuse (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) is adding her own chapter to the story. She is the dam of dual winner and G1 Coronation S.-placed Jubiloso (GB) (Shamardal). Communique=s Love For HQ Communique (Ire) may be trained on the heavenly Yorkshire moors but he clearly has a liking for the East Anglian air as his four outings to Newmarket=s two racecourses have seen him triumph on every occasion. The likeable and robust colt is the Frankel | Juddmonte best son of Casamento (Ire), who is now standing at Sunnyhill Stud, and he notched his second Group 2 win of the year in the Princess of Wales=s S.