The Hokkaido Summer Sale, the largest yearling sale in Japan kicks off Aug.18 at Shizunai\u00a0 with 1,456 yearlings on offer during the six day sale.<\/p>\n
Leading sires such as Kizuna<\/a>\u00a0, Nadal<\/a>\u00a0, Real Steel<\/a>\u00a0, and Lord Kanaloa<\/a>\u00a0, are represented in the sale. In addition to the proven sires, 15 yearlings by first-crop sire\u00a0Hot Rod Charlie<\/a>\u00a0, who entered stud in 2023 at Shadai Stallion Station are cataloged; and 27 first Japanese crop yearlings by Will Take Charge<\/a>\u00a0, who was moved to Darley Japan in 2023, are included in the catalog.<\/p>\n A few highlight offerings include:<\/p>\n \u2022 Hip 678, a colt by first-crop sire and 2021 Dubai World Cup (G1) winner\u00a0Mystic Guide<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0, consigned by CS Stable. Mystic Guide started his stud duties at Darley America in 2023, and stood the 2025 season for an advertised fee of $7,500. The colt is a half\u00a0brother to Little Poison<\/a>\u00a0, who ran third in the 2024 Prairie Meadows Debutante Stakes.<\/p>\n \u2022 Hip 1044, a colt by California Chrome<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0, consigned by Z Stable. She is a full sister to Komorebino Omoide<\/a>\u00a0, who has won six races in the United States, including the Steve Sexton Mile (G3) at Lone Star Park<\/a> May 26.<\/p>\n \u2022 Hip 404, a filly\u00a0by Le Vent Se Leve<\/a>\u00a0, consigned by Grand Stud. The filly is a half\u00a0sister to Natural Rise<\/a>\u00a0, who won the Haneda Hai (G1) at Oi April 29 and the Tokyo Derby (G1) June11\u2014 the first and second legs of the Japanese Dirt Triple Crown for 3-year-olds.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hokkaido Summer Sale, the largest yearling sale in Japan kicks off Aug.18 at Shizunai\u00a0 with 1,456 yearlings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15715,153,8,15713,15714],"class_list":{"0":"post-19782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hokkaido","8":"tag-2025-hokkaido-summer-yearling-sale","9":"tag-hokkaido","10":"tag-japan","11":"tag-kizuna-jpn","12":"tag-shizunai"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}