THE RACEHORSES #9: FAIRY ROBE 

Having gone through all the JRA horses at the bottom of the page with a fair chance of running in the next few months (some have already made their debuts, of course), we may as well move over to the NAR horses, as Fairy Robe is the only other nag old enough to make the start line this year, while Jaguar and Tenn-chan have probably passed their peak by a decade! Not that you'd think the retired pair are knocking on a bit - you can still see the racing spirit in both of them...

Courtesy Carrot Club

But anyway, Fairy Robe is a charming filly by Symboli Kris S out of Angel Robe. We've covered Symboli Kris S in the Harmony Fair and Lourdes No Hitomi profiles, so no need to cover that ground again. However, Angel Robe has some interesting blood, including Admire Vega (with Sunday Silence as sire and Tony Bin as damsire) as her father, and Northern Dancer DNA in her mother's line. 

Carrot Club has just announced that Fairy Robe will be based at the NAR's Kawasaki Keiba track, assigned to the Yamazaki Stable belonging to Hiromi Yamazaki, which by coincidence has just been featured in the latest edition of Poco Poco via one of its jockeys, Hironori Sato. Hopefully, we can see her race at Funabashi in the not too distant future, but at least Kawasaki isn't that far away for a good day out. And the recent NHK documentary (aired a couple of weeks ago) made Kawasaki more appealing for me in any case - I saw plenty of passion and a love of horses, which is far more important than a glossy veneer as far as I'm concerned.

Well, this is the last of the mini-profiles for a little while, as there's no rush on the other horses I have a stake in - they haven't even been named yet. We can therefore go back to news items, jockey and trainer profiles, historical topics and so on for the moment, and gradually introduce the other racers as and when something of note happens to one of them. Or if I get bored!