She’s fast, she stays and on what she showed in Japan, she looks very, very versatile. Obviously, beating her is going to be a very hard thing to do. “In many ways she’s the star attraction of the night. “Start before her,” Buick said this week, when asked if he had a game plan to win. William Buick, last year’s Derby-winning jockey on Masar, was a distant spectator on ninth-placed Satono Crown when Almond Eye took the Japan Cup and rides Dream Castle, the second-favourite with British bookmakers, against her on Saturday. “She is a really special filly she has relaxed into her Dubai surroundings very well.” “Even I don’t know where her limit is yet,” Kunieda said this week. But she has looked in fine condition during her early-morning workouts this week and Sakae Kunieda, her trainer, has said that there could be an even bigger performance in Almond Eye as she progresses through a season that could also include a trip to York’s Ebor meeting in August. It would be unfair to expect a repeat of that on Saturday, when Almond Eye will be racing for the first time in four months. Data may not be fully available for non-JRA horses / past races. Almond Eye settled beautifully for Christophe Lemaire, her jockey, a couple of lengths behind a very strong pace then moved to the front approaching the final furlong under a hand ride. Horse scratches and Jockey changes after the barrier draw are not reflected in the race programme. In 2018, she became only the fifth horse to complete Japan’s Triple Crown for fillies, but it was her subsequent win in the Japan Cup in November, in a record time, that marked her out as a potential superstar. Home-grown talent has flourished at the event - since 2018, every winning trainer and owner has come from Japan. Hightower and AxialMatt of Achievement Hunter take a look. Japan Cup Inaugurated in 1981, the Japan Cup is the countrys richest horse race. Breeders’ Cup Ltd., in conjunction with the Japan Racing Association, today announced that the US2.1 million Victoria Mile, a Group 1 race for fillies and mares, 4-years-old and up, to be held May 17 at Tokyo Race Course, will be a new race in the 2020 international Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series. The Arc is already pencilled in as Almond Eye’s ultimate target this year, as it has for John Gosden’s Enable, and even at this early stage, a meeting between the two, with Sea Of Class, last year’s narrow runner-up in the Arc, possibly making it a trio of brilliant mares and fillies, it promises to be a race for the ages.īut first, Almond Eye has to show that her best form travels. Japan World Cup 3 is a bizarre Japanese video game featuring the strangest horse races around. When a horse has done all it can in Japan, an international stage beckons and if the media circus surrounding her is any guide, Almond Eye is the most exciting horse to emerge from Japan since the unforgettable afternoon in Paris in 2006 when Deep Impact went to post for the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.ĭeep Impact finished third in front of a crowd that was estimated to include between 10,000 and 15,000 travelling fans from Japan.

For the owners of the very best horses, though, there comes a point where the money is not enough.

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