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| Courtesy Carrot Club |
Based at the Ogasa Stable at Miho TC, this colt is interesting, because the mother is Mejiro Lourdes, who gave birth to Lourdes No Hitomi - a horse that gave me a great deal of entertainment in the JRA arena and is now fighting it out in NAR racing. As such, there's not much point in going over the dam side again - it's simply enough to say that Mejiro Lourdes was sired by Sunday Silence, with strong Mejiro family lines in the female side of the equation.
The sire is Harbinger, a legend in racing circles that had his career cut short by an injury. Still, six wins from nine races, including victory in the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes, plus a second and a third, allowed him to stand as a stallion in Japan from 2011.
Harbinger has some truly beautiful bloodlines, with Danehill as one grandfather and Bering as the other. Danehill, successfully combining the blood of Tesio's greatest, goes down in history as being one of the most successful sires of all-time, while Bering won the Prix du Jockey Club and came second in the L'Arc de Triomphe during his career. His mother is the French-registered Penang Pearl, who picked up a useful 3-5-1 record on the track before becoming a broodmare.
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