By Alan Carasso
Winless since annexing the Zennippon Nisai Yushun over this course and distance to complete a four-for-four juvenile campaign, Rieno Tesoro (Speightstown) sat a stalking trip from second, took command with about 500 metres to travel, repelled a bid from favoured Oken Believe (Jpn) (Kurofune) in upper stretch and held sway late for her third career black-type success. Rabbit Run (Tapit), already a Group 3 winner on turf, completed a US-bred 1-3 finish while earning her first black-type on dirt.
Rieno Tesoro was blanked in six runs at three, though she did manage a big runner-up effort against the boys in the G1 NHK Mile Cup on turf. The chestnut was returning to her preferred dirt surface for the first time since last September and making her fourth start of the season Thursday evening, having finished well down the track in the G1 Victoria Mile May 13.
A half-sister to the talented Governor Malibu, Fasig-Tipton Saratoga graduate Rieno Tesoro is out of a talented racemare who is a half-sister to Blue Devil Bel (Gilded Time), the dam of this year's GI Xpressbet Florida Derby hero and GI Kentucky Derby third placegetter Audible (Into Mischief). Rieno Tesoro's 3-year-old half-sister Peril (Ghostzapper) was a maiden winner at Belmont Park in her most recent trip to the post June 2, while 2-year-old half-sister Next Gen (Super Saver), a $235,000 graduate of last year's FTSAUG sale, breezed five furlongs in 1:01 flat at July 2 Santa Anita for Spendthrift Farm and trainer Richard Mandella. Akilina is the dam of a yearling filly by Uncle Mo and foaled a colt by Malibu Moon this past May 22. VIDEO
SPARKLING LADY CUP-Listed, ¥42,500,000 (£290,601/€328,740/US$384,000), Kawasaki, 7-5, 3yo/up, f/m, 1600m, 1:40.8, ft.
1–RIENO TESORO, 121, f, 4, Speightstown–Akilina (MSW & GSP, $316,460), by Langfuhr. ($250,000 Ylg '15 FTSAUG). O-Ryotokuji Kenji Holdings Co Ltd; B-Oak Bluff Stables LLC (NY); T-Ryo Takei; J-Hayato Yoshida; ¥25,000,000. Lifetime Record: G1SP-Jpn, 14-5-1-0, ¥146,273,000. *1/2 to Governor Malibu (Malibu Moon), SW & MGSP, $665,700.[bullet ad=”us-bred-ft-grad”]2–Oken Believe (Jpn), 121, m, 5, Kurofune–Bisque Doll (Jpn), by Sunday Silence. (¥16,800,000 Fl '13 JRHAJUL). O-Akira Fukui.
3–Rabbit Run, 126, f, 4, Tapit–Amelia, by Dixieland Band. ($750,000 Ylg '15 KEESEP). O-Katsumi Yoshida.[bullet ad=”gainesway-consigned-by”][bullet ad=”us-bred-ky-bred-keen-grad”]Margins: HF, 1HF, 1HF. Odds: 3.40, 2.70, 4.40.
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