By Alan Carasso
In this continuing series, we take a look ahead at US-bred and/or conceived runners entered for the upcoming weekend at the tracks on the Japan Racing Association circuit, with a focus on pedigree and/or performance in the sales ring. Here are the horses of interest for this Sunday running at Hanshin Racecourse as 2-year-old racing kicks off the season on the Japan Racing Association circuit:
Sunday, June 8, 2025
5th-HSN, ¥14,250,000 ($98k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1400mT
YU PHAROAH (c, 2, American Pharoah–Limari, by Medaglia d'Oro) cost trainer Hideyuki Mori $75,000 at last year's Keeneland September Sale a handful of days after his then-juvenile half-brother West Beach (Omaha Beach) was just nabbed on the wire by future GSW Tiztastic (Tiz the Law) in the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Mile. The Feb. 1 foal's dam, third as the odds-on favorite in the 2019 GIII Mint Julep Stakes, is a half-sister to Eclair (Bernardini), herself a stakes winner at two. This is the female family of GI Just A Game Stakers winner Antonoe (First Defence). Yu Pharoah is bred on the same cross responsible for GI New York Stakes winner Marketsegmentation and G1 Victoria Derby hero Goldrush Guru (Aus). O-K Aitetsu; B-Don Alberto Corporation & American Pharoah Syndicate (KY); T-Hideyuki Mori
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