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【一齣好戲】「純淨之輝」下週首映由連達文一手包辦

瘋魔萬千馬迷的「純淨之輝」今年初戰角逐於東京舉行的一級賽維多利亞一哩賽，並由澳洲籍好手連達文操刀。

Andrew Le Jeune

LJ Confidential: Sodashi fever provides opportunity at the odds

Sodashi will have the Tokyo crowd at fever pitch but given the hype around the great white hope, perhaps the best play is to look elsewhere to some high class rivals who could represent value. Andrew Le Jeune previews all the Hong Kong simulcast action.

David Morgan

New leading man: Damian Lane set to co-star in ‘box office’ Sodashi’s 2023 premier

Japan’s ‘White Wonder’ makes her five-year-old debut in Sunday's Victoria Mile at Tokyo and her trainer hopes for a new maturity that would take the iconic mare to a higher level under her new rider, the in-form Australian Damian Lane.

David Morgan

Champagne day for the little filly sold over lunch

Memorial Life’s second foal Champagne Color elevated her status to Group 1 producer at the weekend and gave a nod to the Chasemore Farm nursery that produced her, and to the Japanese approach that has uplifted her.

Adrian Webber

Keiba Diary: Joe Fujii keeps fighting

Adrian Webber caught up with Joe Fujii for this week’s Keiba Diary as the popular jockey continues to readjust to home life with his wife and children after suffering severe spinal injuries in a race fall last year.

NHK Mile Cup G1 Guide

Tokyo's NHK Mile Cup in May provides a still-testing 1600m Group 1 option for those perhaps lacking in the requisite stamina to take on Japan's best staying three-year-olds over the Classic distances.

David Morgan

Sol Oriens is another feather in Kitasan Black’s cap

The brilliant Satsuki Sho winner is by the impressive young sire Kitasan Black out of a mare that has surprised her former trainer in establishing her place as a proven producer of quality racehorses in Japan.

Adrian Webber

Keiba Diary: another Classic stunner as Sol Oriens shines

JRA broadcaster Adrian Webber recaps all the weekend action and picks through recent happenings, including the reopening of the revamped Kyoto racecourse.

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Asian Racing Review: corporates grilled at inquiry, but where was the racing industry?

Andrew Le Jeune and Michael Cox talk Japan's latest turf superstar, the seemingly forgotten broader context of Anamoe's G1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes defeat, and the at times 'heated' government inquiry into Australia's corporate bookmaking sector.

Adrian Webber

Keiba Diary: idols in the vending machine but Liberty Island is the real deal

Adrian Webber takes a look at the Satsuki Sho prospects and has news of the injured and returning, along with a well-known jockey’s daughter starting out at the JRA school.

David Morgan

Liberty Island makes Yankee Rose the height of fashion

Japanese breeders have sourced top international broodmare prospects for decades but in recent years they have cherry-picked Group 1-winning mares from Australia and the latest rising star is rich reward for that approach.

Homan Ho

JRA Blackbook: Kizuna filly to stay Oaks course?

Grand Bernadette emerged as a possible G1 Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks) contender at Hanshin, while a son of King Kamehameha benefited from a gear change at Nakayama.

David Morgan

Liberty Island’s Oka Sho brilliance stunned even the expectant

Mitsumasa Nakauchida has long known that Liberty Island possesses rare talent but the filly’s stunning Classic win under Yuga Kawada went beyond what he had envisaged