Sparkling Debut for 'Kingdom' Kin

While the Arima Kinen served as the main course on Sunday's program at Nakayama, the public were treated to an outstanding performance in the day's fourth race from Satono Kingdom (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}), the debuting half-brother to GI Kentucky Derby and G1 Dubai World Cup hero Animal Kingdom (Leroidesanimaux {Brz}).

Sent off at a well-backed 9-2 and drawn 10 for this first go, the bay colt lingered towards the back of the pack and made good progress down the side of the track, though was trapped out five or six wide. But the son of Dalicia (Ger) (Acatenango {Ger}) nevertheless challenged about five off the fence entering the lane beneath leading jockey Keita Tosaki and finished determinedly to defeat chief market rival Imagine That (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) by 1 1/4 lengths in the time of 1:36.8 for the 1600 meters on turf (video).

Satono Kingdom was bred by Shadai Farm, who acquired Dalicia for 230,000gns in foal to Mr. Greeley at the 2009 Tattersalls December Sale. The colt is trained by Sakae Kunieda for owner Hajime Satomi. Dalicia, who turns 15 later this week, is the dam of a yearling filly by Stay Gold (Jpn) and a weanling filly by that stallion. She was bred back to Deep Impact (Jpn) earlier this year.

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