On Sunday, June 2 and coming on the heels off a longshot victory in the Japanese Derby is the final big event at Tokyo until the autumn – the Grade 1 Yasuda Kinen, a mile turf event for horses 3 years old and up.
Twelfth favorite Roger Barows captured his first grade-race victory in this year’s Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby), renewing the race record set by Duramente in 2015 by 0.6 seconds to 2:22.6.
The stage is set for one of the most exciting races at Seoul this season with the YTN Cup, the 1st leg of the 2019 Korean Stayers’ Series, taking place on Sunday.
Following hot on the hooves of the fillies in last week’s Grade 1 Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks), it’s the turn of the colts to show what they’re made of in the Grade 1 Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) on Sunday, May 26 at Tokyo Racecourse.
Race favorite Loves Only You captured this year’s Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks) at Tokyo on Sunday while setting a new race record of 2:22.8, 0.8 seconds faster than previously set by Gentildonna in 2012.
Trainer Ricardo Le Grange snapped a run of outs with favourite Super Tycoon (NZ) (O’Reilly) landing the money in the $50,000 Class 4 Division 2 race over 1400m on Friday night.
A sizzling-run race saw talented sprinter Skywalk (NZ) (Battle Paint) bounce back in record-breaking time in the $100,000 Class 1 race over 1100m on the Polytrack on Friday night.
Old marvel Supernova (NZ) (Elusive City) showed he clearly had no intention of being put to pasture after he posted his 11th win as a rising 11 on Friday night.
