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 Tokyo Racecourse. As part of the G1 Yushun Himba program, the race may be watched live across ADW platforms at 10 p.m. ET:
Sunday, May 25, 2025
3rd-TOK, ¥10,600,000 ($74k), Maiden, 3yo, 1300m
AMERICAN BEYOND (c, 3, McKinzie–Church by the Sea, by Harlan's Holiday) made a single racetrack appearance at two, finishing a distant third to runaway winner Snappy Dancer (Union Rags) going 1400 meters over this strip in October. A $275,000 Keeneland November weanling and $400,000 Keeneland September grad, the bay is kin to two other winners, including MGSW Significant Form (Creative Cause)–the dam of SW Opulent Restraint (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire})–and GSW Hay Dakota (Haynesfield). The colt's unraced dam is a half-sister to GSW/GISP Hello Liberty (Forest Camp) and the deeper female family includes GSW & GISP Cairo Memories (Cairo Prince) and MGSP Dilger (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}). Top Australian jockey Michael Dee has the call. The competition includes the filly Angel Ladder (Nyquist), whose dam Tiz Miz Sue (Tiznow) won the GI Ogden Phipps Handicap and is responsible for the G3 UAE Oaks third Serein (Uncle Mo). O-Yoshizawa Holdings Co Ltd; B-Brereton C Jones (KY); T-Hideaki Fujiwara
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