Into Mischief Colt From $2.3M Pink Sands Gets Going at Kyoto

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 Saturday running at Kyoto Racecourse. The horses of note entered for Sunday will appear in Saturday's TDN:

Saturday, February 1, 2025
3rd-KYO, ¥10,600,000 ($69k), Maiden, 3yo, 1400m
MAGNA DOMUS (JPN) (c, 3, American Pharoah–Competitionofideas, by Speightstown) becomes the first starter for his dam, winner of the 2018 GI American Oaks and later sold to Shadai Farm for $1.3 million at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton November Sale before being bred and exported. Magna Domus shares the Grade III-winning second dam Devil By Design (Medaglia d'Oro) with John Gunther's Sea To Sky (Ire) (Without Parole {GB}), third in a heavy-ground renewal of the Listed Highclere Thoroughbred Racing Stakes at Newbury last October. O-Shadai Race Horse Co Ltd; B-Shadai Farm; T-Yoshito Yahagi

5th-KYO, ¥11,850,000 ($77k), Newcomers, 3yo, 1400m
JUSTIN TRUENO (c, 3, Into Mischief) is the first foal out of Pink Sands (Tapit), winner in succession of the GIII Rampart Stakes in late 2019 and the GII Inside Information Stakes the following month. Retired at the end of that season, the $625,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling visited this sire and was offered at the 2021 Keeneland November Sale, where her $2.3-million pricetag with this colt in utero was the second-dearest transaction of the auction. Pink Sands is a daughter of GISW Her Smile, herself a $1.5-million KEENOV purchase by KatieRich Farms and the dam of Timing Now (Tapit), who accumulated better than $500,000 while racing in Japan. O-Masahiro Miki; B-EM Planning LLC (KY); T-Haruki Sugiyama

LADY NINJA (JPN) (c, 3, Nyquist–Lady Ninja, by Majesticperfection), whose dam won the GIII L.A. Woman Stakes in 2019, was acquired in utero for $360,000 at KEENOV in 2021. The March foal, sold on for just over $45,000 at the 2023 Hokkaido Summer Yearling Sale, is out of a half-sister to eight additional winners, including the stakes-placed Underdressed (Keen Ice). O-Katsutoshi Nagayama; B-Chiba Stud; T-Yoshiaki Sugiyama