Another of Mary's Follies's Offspring A Warm Item on Tokyo Debut

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 weekend running at Tokyo and Hanshin Racecourses:

Saturday, June 21, 2025
6th-TOK, ¥14,250,000 ($98k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1400m
ARCADIA CAFE (c, 2, Into Mischief–Mary's Follies, by More Than Ready) is a half-brother to seven winners from eight to race and is a half-brother to SW and recent GI Kentucky Derby participant Luxor Cafe (American Pharoah) and MG1SW Cafe Pharoah (American Pharoah), who broke his maiden by 10 lengths at first asking. The $550,000 Keeneland September acquisition's other relatives include Eclipse Award and multiple Grade I-winning 'TDN Rising Star' Regal Glory (Animal Kingdom) and MGSW Night Prowler (Giant's Causeway) from the same Storm Cat sire line. Dual graded winner Mary's Follies changed hands for $500,000 from the dispersal of the late Paul Pompa at Keeneland January in 2021. Damian Lane rides Arcadia Cafe, who is the 3-5 favorite ante-post. O-Koichi Nishikawa; B-Orpendale/Chelston/Wynatt & Westerberg Ireland ULC (KY); T-Noriyuki Hori

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DONA SCHON (f, 2, Munnings–Nutcracker Suite {Ire}, by Fastnet Rock {Aus}), a $375,000 Keeneland September yearling, is the year-younger half-sister to Giocoso (Not This Time), third in last year's GIII Iroquois Stakes. The Feb. 26 foal is out of a winning daughter of dual Group 3 winner Dietrich (Storm Cat), the dam of Irish highweight Beauty Bright (Ire) (Danehill), MSW & G1SP Aloft (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and Marquesa (Kingmambo), the Group 3-placed dam of Japanese SW Beautiful Day (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}). O-Masao Ogawa; B-Breed First LLC (KY); T-Toru Kurita

Sunday, June 22, 2025
5th-HSN, ¥14,250,000 ($98k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1600mT
ECORO BOLT (c, 2, Practical Joke–In My Time, by Scat Daddy) is out of a multiple stakes-placed half-sister to SP Irish Fantasy and improved from a $90,000 Keeneland November weanling into a $185,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling when purchased by trainer Hideyuki Mori last summer. The colt's third dam was responsible for SW Dharma Girl (French Deputy), whose daughter Socially Selective (Speightster) was recently third in the GIII Distaff Stakes at Aqueduct. O-Masatoshi Haramura; B-Barak Farm (MD); T-Hideyuki Mori

5th-TOK, ¥14,250,000 ($98k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1600mT
MARGOT BLOW (JPN) (c, 2, Twirling Candy–Tough Irma, by Stormy Atlantic) is out of a full-sister to SW Stormy Dixie and a half to Turbo Compressor (Halo's Image), winner of the GI United Nations Stakes in 2012. The colt's third dam Pleasant Dixie (Dixieland Band) produced four winners, including MGISW Southern Image (Halo's Image) and Japanese Group 3 winner Black Bar Spin (Put It Back). Yushun Company acquired the stakes-placed Tough Irma for $200,000 with this colt in utero at the 2022 Keeneland November Sale. O-Ryohei Maeda; B-Kosho Bokujo; T-Shigenobu Isaka