Trying to maintain her undefeated record at G3 Artemis S. on Saturday, Ravel (Jpn) (Kitasan Black {Jpn}) managed that feat by surpassing the favourite Liberty Island (Jpn) (Duramente {Jpn}) in the 1600 meter location in Tokyo.
Kicked off the field as third pick 6-1 after her long-running win over teenager Kokura in July, Nordic Farm and U-Carrot Farm’s colorist not the fastest and last anchor but one like Alice Verite (Jpn) (Kizuna {Jpn}) created a slight advantage against the pressing duo of Dynato Selene (Jpn) (Red Falx {Jpn}) and Masculine (Jpn) (One and Only {Jpn}). Unhurried at the bend, Ravel swooped in at the widest of the lane, but still had most of the field to traverse as Alice Verite set sail home to the quads.
Finishing with excitement, the bay takes the lead in her sights inside the final fur and takes that foe down deeply, before succumbing to Freedom Island’s belated charge. It’s another neck back third in the game Alice Verite.
Genealogical Notes
With Horse of the Year Twice Japan Kitasan Black (Jpn), himself the son of Black Tide (Jpn), the full brother of Deep Impact (Jpn), Ravel is the third black category winner and the winning the third group for her male. , whose oldest pony is only 3 years old. She joined Team 2 team and scorer Gaia Force (Jpn) and Equinox (Jpn), with second place in both G1 Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) and G1 Satsuki Sho (Japanese St Leger). Equinox leaves gate number seven at G1 Tenno Sho (Autumn) on Sunday. Like Gaia Force, the gulf is inbreeding with the influential Sunday Silence.
Ravel’s mare has been living in the Land of the Rising Sun since the late 40s, and she is the third pony and winner for the third G3 Fairy S. Sambre Et Meuse (Jpn) (Daiwa Major) {Jpn}) after the G3 Falcon S. Westerwald (Jpn) ({Ire} Novelist) and G2 Tulip Sho’s female lead Namur (Jpn). That daughter of Harbinger (GB) played the bridesmaid in G1 Shuka Sho (Japanese Fillies St Leger) and placed third in G1 Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks) this season.
One of four black horses in her winning dam Vite Marcher (Jpn) (Deputy France), Sambre Et Meuse is a half-sister with 2021 GI Breeders’ Cup Distaff supplies to Marche Lorraine (Jpn) ( Orfevre {Jpn) }).
Saturday, Tokyo, Japan
ARTEMIS S.-G3¥ 56,110,000, Tokyo, 10-29, 2yo, f, 1600mT, 1: 33.80, fm.
first-RAVEL (JPN), 119, f, 2, by Kitasan Black (Jpn)
Dam 1: Sambre et Meuse (Jpn), by Daiwa Major (Jpn)
2nd Dam: Vite Marcher (Jpn), by French Deputy Minister
3rd beat: Kyoei March (Jpn), by Dancing Brave
O-Carrot Farm; B-North Farm (Jpn); T-Yoshito Yahagi;
J-Ryusei Sakai. ¥ 29,357,000. Lifetime record: 2-2-0-0. * 1/2 to
Westerwald (Jpn) (Novel {Ire}), GSP-Jpn, $761,865; and
Namur (Jpn) (Harbinger {GB}), GSW & MG1SP-Jpn, $1,309,898.
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eNicks report & pedigree of 5 children.
2-Liberty Island (Jpn)119, f, 2, Duramente (Jpn) –Yankee Rose
(Aus), by All American (Aus). TYPE 1 BLACK. GROUP 1ST
BLACK TYPE. O-Sunday Racing; B-North Farm (Jpn);
¥ 12,102,000.
3–Alice Verite (Jpn)119, f, 2, Kizuna (Jpn) –Lumiere Verite, by
Cozzene. TYPE 1 BLACK. GROUP 1ST BLACK RED. O-Makoto
Kato; B-North Hills (Jpn); ¥ 7,351,000.
Margins: NK, NK, HF. Odds: 6.90, 0.40, 14.70.
Also Ran: Dane Balance (Jpn), Malaki Naia (Jpn), Dynato Selene (Jpn), Masculine (Jpn), Kosei Maria (Jpn), Mississippi Tesoro (Jpn), Nishino Kofuku (Jpn). Click to view JRA chart and video.
