By Alan Carasso
Already a winner at group level on turf, the fashionably bred Rabbit Run added winning black-type on dirt Thursday to become the 20th millionaire for her wildly successful sire.
Handy to the pace while three deep into the first turn, Rabbit Run raced prominently with cover while unable to get in on the track. Stoked up from third by Mirco Demuro with about 500 metres to race, the chestnut snuck through to the inside of Princia Cometa in upper stretch and was late changing her leads, but came away to a convincing victory all the same.
A seven-length maiden winner at first asking on dirt, Rabbit Run posted a 25-1 upset of the grassy G2 Rose S. last September. Off the board in her first three runs this season, all on the turf, Rabbit Run returned to the main track for her latest, a third to the talented Rieno Tesoro (Speightstown) in the Listed Sparkling Lady Cup (1600m) at Kawasaki July 5.
Rabbit Run is one of five graded/group winners for her dam, herself a listed winner and a daughter of MGSW Aquilegia (Alydar). She is also a full-sister to 2012 GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile runner-up He's Had Enough. Aquilegia, a full-sister to the champion Althea, is the dam of GSW & MG1SP sprinter Bertolini (Danzig) and SW Alchemilla (Deputy Minister). The family also includes GI Breeders' Cup Classic winner and young sire Bayern (Offlee Wild), Arch and Twining, who had a productive stallion career in Japan. Amelia is the dam of a yearling filly by the repatriated Empire Maker and produced a colt by the same sire earlier this year.
BREEDERS' GOLD CUP-Listed, ¥37,500,000 (£265,975/€297,306/US$337,937), Morioka, 8-16, 3yo/up, f/m, 2000m, 2:05.6, sy.
1–RABBIT RUN, 126, f, 4, Tapit&log=">Tapit–Amelia (SW, $179,565), by Dixieland Band. ($750,000 Ylg '15 KEESEP). O-Kazuko Yoshida; B-Alexander-Groves-Matz (KY); T-Kazuya Nakatake; J-Mirco Demuro; ¥25,000,000. Lifetime Record: GSW-Jpn, 12-4-1-1, ¥120,102,000. *1/2 to Kindergarden Kid (Dynaformer), GSW & GISP, $341,650; Assateague (Stormy Atlantic), GSW, $398,059; Rainha Da Bateria (Broken Vow), MGSW & GISP, $638,013; and Asakusa Genki (Stormy Atlantic), GSW-Jpn, $675,448; full to He's Had Enough, GISP, $492,910.
2–Princia Cometa (Jpn), 123, m, 5, Spicule (Jpn)–Belmont Feliz (Jpn), by Adjudicating. O-Takiyuki Yoshikawa.
3–Queen Mambo (Jpn), 126, f, 4, Manhattan Cafe (Jpn)–Suzuka El Mambo (Jpn), by Symboli Kris S.. O-Hidaka Bree Inc.
Margins: 4, 3, 1HF. Odds: 5.50, 7.10, 0.70.
WATCH: Rabbit Run proves an easy winner
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