Equinox great neck12/28/2023 ![]() The six-year-old Vela Azul was last year’s Japan Cup winner, but his four starts since have been disappointing. William Buick comes in for the ride but she is drawn 17 of 18.įive-year-old Danon Beluga was fifth here last year under Yuga Kawada and his best run this campaign was a second to Lord North in the Dubai Turf. She missed the Tenno Sho (Autumn), due to a hoof issue and hasn’t raced since May. Her second in this year’s Group 1 Osaka Hai shows she can be competitive against males. Stars On Earth is another by Duramente and has never finished out of the first three in any of her 10 career starts including two fillies’ classics last year. Another keen running sort, will he set it up for Equinox? Returning at the end of September, Titleholder scored a second in the Grade 2 at Nakayama and should be primed for this. This year, he won a Grade 2 but was pulled up lame in the Group 1 Tenno Sho (Spring). ![]() He was then aimed for the Arima Kinen, but finished well behind Equinox. Titleholder landed three Group 1s by mid-2022, and then ran in the 2022 Arc but made little impression. He finished well down the field in Alpinista’s Arc and returned after seven months for a seventh-place finish in the Tenno Sho (Autumn). Of the others, Do Deuce was never out of the three from his debut in 2021 to winning the Japanese Derby in spring 2022, five starts later when he beat Equinox by a neck. ![]() Most of her wins were characterised by an impressive turn of foot. The Japan Cup will be her first time against older horses. That Duramente daughter won the three-year-old classics this season. He is drawn in stall two with Liberty Island in one beside him. It was his seventh win out of his nine career starts.Ĭhristophe Lemaire has ridden the Kitasan Black colt in all of his races and rides again.Įquinox has to give a notable 9lb to this year’s Fillies’ Triple Crown winner Liberty Island. It includes the most impressive of wins in the Longines Dubai Sheema Classic from a field that contained Westover and Mostahdaf.Įquinox came into the Tenno Sho (Autumn) last month with four Group 1 wins behind him, and crushed the field for his second win of the race, and in record time. Equinox is currently on a five-race winning streak since he was beaten in the 2022 Japanese Derby.
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