Shadai Stallion Station resident Gold Allure (Jpn) (Sunday Silence–Nikiya, by Nureyev), a four-time Group 1 winner over dirt in Japan succumbed to heart disease Feb. 16. He was 18. Among those four top-level victories for Shadai Race Horse Co. Ltd., was the G1 February S. in 2003, with Gold Allure eventually winning half of his 16 starts and over $3.3 million before retiring to Shadai.
Fittingly, the Oiwake Farm-bred's son Gold Dream (Jpn), captured the 2017 edition of the race, a GI Breeders' Cup Classic 'Win And You're In' race, Sunday. His 3-year-old son Epicharis (Jpn), added further luster to Gold Allure's weekend, as he took his record to a perfect four-for-four in the Listed Hyacinth S. (JPN-G3), a race worth 50 points on the Road to the Kentucky Derby and a berth in the 1 1/4-mile Grade I on the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs.
Other progeny of Gold Allure to shine on the racetrack are: Copano Rickey (Jpn), the 2015 Japanese Champion Dirt Horse who scooped two editions of the February S. (2014/2015); Smart Falcon (Jpn), the prolific $11-million plus earner who excelled over dirt; and Espoir City (Jpn), who won the 2010 February S. and 2009 G1 Japan Cup Dirt. In total, Gold Allure's progeny have raked in over $170 million in prize money from 11 crops of racing age, good for dirt sire championship titles in 2014 and 2016. He has also been runner-up on that list an additional six times, with career totals currently standing at 1043 foals, 718 winners and 18 black-type winners.
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