In this continuing series, we take a look ahead at US-bred and\/or conceived runners entered for the upcoming weekend at the tracks on the Japan Racing Association circuit, with a focus on pedigree and\/or performance in the sales ring. Here are the horses of interest for this weekend running at Chukyo Racecourse:<\/p>\n
Saturday, August 15, 2026 \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n Sunday, August 16, 2026 IVY CHRONOS (c, 2, Drain the Clock<\/a>\u2013Tomato Bisque, by Macho Uno) made a couple of trips through the Keeneland sales pavilion, realizing $70,000 at the 2024 November Sale before hammering for twice that amount at last year’s September Sale. He was sold on for $250,000 at OBS March Sale after going a furlong in :10 1\/5<\/a>. From the well-received first crop of his sire (by Maclean’s Music<\/a>), the gray is out of an own sister to GII West Virginia Derby winner Macho Macho and the female family includes GI Shoemaker Mile hero Designed For Luck (Rahy). O-Ishizaka Shigeru Rabo Co Ltd; B-Pony Express Sales Inc (KY); T-Koji Maki<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n PIKO JACK (c, 2, Jack Christopher<\/a>\u2013Girl With a Dream, by Practical Joke<\/a>) is the first foal from his dam, winner of the 2022 GIII Forward Gal Stakes for Jim Bakke and Gerald Isbister\u2013who campaigned this freshman sire (by Munnings<\/a>) in partnership\u2013and trainer Brad Cox. A $60,000 KEESEP graduate, this Feb. 24 foal was another of this trainer’s nine OBSMAR purchases when hammering for $150,000 after a :9 4\/5<\/a> breeze. The mare is the dam of a yearling full-sister to Piko Jack and produced another filly this term after selling to Japanese interests for $260,000 at Keeneland November last fall. O-BIJOUPIKO Co Ltd; B-Bakster Farms (KY); T-Hideyuki Mori<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this continuing series, we take a look ahead at US-bred and\/or conceived runners entered for the upcoming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48142,48143,48144,29006,642,48145,8,12021,9186,40830,17832,33,9188,43888],"class_list":["post-74468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-chukyo","tag-drain-the-clock","tag-freshmen-sires","tag-hideyuki-mori","tag-horse-racing","tag-jack-christopher","tag-japan","tag-keeneland-november","tag-keeneland-september","tag-life-is-good","tag-nashville","tag-nihon","tag-notable-us-bred-runners-in-japan","tag-obs-march"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74468","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=74468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
3rd-CKO, \u00a514,880,000 ($93k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1200mT
PIKO KING (c, 2, Nashville<\/a>\u2013Miss Vigilance, by War Pass) was sold for $15,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July Sale, but improved nicely to fetch $110,000 from this trainer after he breezed an eighth of a mile in :9 4\/5<\/a> at this year’s OBS March Sale. The first Japanese starter for his first-crop sire (by Speightstown), the Apr. 10 foal is out of an unplaced half-sister to Grade I-winning turfer Man From Wicklow (Turkoman) and four-time graded winner Wild Heart Dancing (Farma Way), herself the dam of two stakes horses, including the three-times stakes-placed Leopard Rock (Speightstown). Miss Vigilance was acquired for $7,000 with this colt in utero at the 2023 Keeneland November Sale. O-BIJOUPIKO Co Ltd; B-Equus Farm (KY); T-Hideyuki Mori<\/p>\n
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2nd-CKO, \u00a514,880,000 ($93k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1400m
JOLT’INI (f, 2, Life Is Good<\/a>\u2013Joyful Addiction, by Munnings<\/a>) is the second foal to the races out of an unraced daughter of GI Vanity Stakes heroine My Sweet Addiction (Tiznow) and cost this owner $275,000 at last year’s Keeneland September Sale. Joyful Addiction is a maternal granddaughter of Healthy Addiction (Boston Harbor), winner of the GI Santa Margarita Handicap during her racing days. Freshman Life Is Good<\/a> (by Into Mischief) is already off the mark in Japan with the debut-winning Lizhitsumodoraichi. The visiting Jason Collett has the riding assignment. O-Yuki Hashimoto; B-Siena Farms LLC (KY); T-Katsunori Tanaka<\/p>\n