Yoshida (Jpn) (Heart's Cry {Jpn}–Hilda's Passion, by Canadian Frontier) has been retired and will stand the upcoming breeding season at WinStar Farm. He will stand for $20,000 S&N.
Campaigned by WinStar Farm, China Horse Club, and Head of Plains Partners and trained by Bill Mott, Yoshida earned $2,505,770 from age two through five. A four-time stakes winner on dirt and turf, Yoshida recorded his career best victories last season in Saratoga's GI Woodward S. and the GI Old Forrester Turf Classic S. at Churchill Downs.
“We are excited about his next chapter,” said Elliott Walden, president, CEO, and racing manager of WinStar Farm. “He's a horse who competed with the best of the best on both surfaces. He ran against [MGISW] Bricks and Mortar four times and beat him twice. When [bloodstock agent] Tom Ryan and I bought him as a yearling, we envisioned him retiring to WinStar and bringing back the hallowed blood of Sunday Silence. He was Grade I class on both surfaces, and not many horses are able to do that.”
Yoshida earned TDN Rising Star status when breaking his maiden at Keeneland in his second career start in 2017. A winner of the GIII Hill Prince S. over Bricks and Mortar later that season, Yoshida more recently finished runner-up to McKinzie in this summer's GI Whitney S. before coming home third in the GI Woodward S. In his final trip to post, he was eighth in the GI Breeders' Cup Classic at Santa Anita.
Bred in Japan by Katsumi Yoshida's Northern Farm, ¥94 million (about $850,000) JRHA Select Sale purchase is the second foal produced from Hilda's Passion, who captured the 2011 GI Ballerina S. at Saratoga before selling for $1.2 million at that year's Fasig-Tipton November sale. Yoshida is a half-brother to Sanctuaire (by Deep Impact), a debut 2-year-old winner in August.
“Yoshida proved to be a versatile racehorse, winning prestigious Grade I races on dirt and turf,” said Sean Tugel, director of bloodstock services and assistant racing manager at WinStar. “He is out of a very fast Grade 1-winning mare and brings back the Sunday Silence/Halo blood to America through his sire Heart's Cry. He is an outstanding physical that possesses heart as a racehorse that everyone is looking to breed into their foals.”
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