{"id":86647,"date":"2026-09-05T20:23:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T20:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/86647\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T20:23:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T20:23:06","slug":"graded-success-for-flightlines-shonan-galleon-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/86647\/","title":{"rendered":"Graded Success for Flightline’s Shonan Galleon in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

2022 Horse of the Year Flightline<\/a>\ud83d\udd25<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 was represented by his first group\/graded winner when Shonan Galleon romped by 6 lengths in the Sapporo Nisai Stakes (G3T) Sept. 5 in Japan.<\/p>\n

Shonan Galleon chased leader Cosmo Hanamizuki before taking command in the stretch in the turf race over 1,800 meters (about 1 1\/8 miles). He pulled clear of the early leader, who held to place ahead of Desert Spirit in third. The winner, who improved to 2-for-2, was timed in 1:50.3 over the Sapporo Racecourse turf course\u00a0under Katsuma Sameshima.<\/p>\n

Shizuya Kato trains the colt for owner Tetsuhide Kunimoto.<\/p>\n

Northern Racing bred Shonan Galleon in Japan out of the Full Mast<\/a>\u00a0 mare Tan Gritona, the champion 2-year-old filly in Argentina in 2021\/2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The winner is from the first crop of Flightline, an 8-year-old son of Tapit<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 out of the Indian Charlie mare Feathered<\/a>\u00a0, who entered stud at Lane’s End in Kentucky after retiring unbeaten in six starts after capturing the 2022\u00a0Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) by 8 1\/4 lengths at Keeneland. Besides being named Horse of the Year in 2022, Flightline was also rated as the Longines World’s Best Racehorse that season. His other top-level victories included the 2021 Malibu Stakes (G1), the 2022 Metropolitan Handicap (G1), and the 2022 Pacific Classic Stakes (G1).<\/p>\n

He entered stud with a fee of $200,000 and stood for $125,000 earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2022 Horse of the Year Flightline\ud83d\udd25\u00a0\u00a0 was represented by his first group\/graded winner when Shonan Galleon romped by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54913,54915,420,8,54841,54912,33,38117,54842,54844,54914,54845,54911,13216,419],"class_list":["post-86647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-2022-horse-of-the-year","tag-flightline-first-crop","tag-international","tag-japan","tag-katsuma-sameshima","tag-lanes-end-farm","tag-nihon","tag-northern-racing","tag-sapporo-nisai-stakes","tag-shizuya-kato","tag-shonan-galleon-jpn","tag-tan-gritona","tag-tetsuhide-kunimoto","tag-thoroughbred-breeding","tag-thoroughbred-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86647","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=86647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}