Burn snuck across the tracks in the extended final to win the Hyacinth Stakes on February 20 at Tokyo Racecourse. If nominated to the US Triple Crown, victory would put him at the top of the leaderboard with a race to go in the Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby.
After taking the lead, Combination, a pony of the Godolphin family of Discreet cat only stop at the late stage of Geraldo Barows , winning by neck at the end of 1,600 meters (about a mile) on a muddy track. The horse is small and only dirty in the field of 14 horses, Sea Vixenhold third place.
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Burn takes 30 points in the Japan series, which is separate from the Main Road to the Kentucky Derby and provides the overall points winner a guaranteed spot in the Louisville, Ky starting gate. Although the win gives him more points than any other horse on the leaderboard, Burns is not nominated for the US series Triple Crown and will have to be replenished to qualify for entry. Bidding. Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun also finished second in the second leg of the series, earning eight points there.
Geraldo Barows, son of The sinister minister , is a candidate. He took 12 points with his encouraging runner-up. Adding to the two points he won with third place in the first series race, Cattleya Stakes, he now has 14.
Update Road to Japan @KentuckyDerby The standings follow Sunday’s wins for Combarding (JPN) against Geraldo Barrows (JPN), Sea Vixen and El Paso (JPN) in Hyacinth at Tokyo Circuit: https://t.co/Jxls00skgv pic.twitter.com/208K4msc5P
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Burning now has three wins and two seconds, all on grass. Geraldo Barows owns a single, three-second win and a third, also all on brownfield.
The series of four races ended on March 26 with the Fukuryu Stakes at Nakayama Racecourse. Competing at 1 1/8 mile distance, that event awards points on a scale of 40-16-8-4, ensuring the matter will not be decided until that result is made official.
While the Total Road to the Japanese Kentucky Derby had only a limited impact on the US Triple Crown, Hyacinth has a slightly older history with the American series. Lani the son of Tapit entered the race in 2016, a year before the Japan Road was built by Churchill Downs. Then he finished ninth in the Kentucky Derby presented by Yum! Brands (G1), fifth in Preakness Shares (G1) and third in Belmont Stocks presented by NYRA Bets (G1).
Until 2019, Master Fencer became the first pony to appear in a Japanese series that began in Louisville, where he placed seventh and was promoted to sixth upon elimination. Maximum security . The Just a road The foal was hit only four lengths with a furious jab from the rear of the herd. Next, he finished fifth at Belmont Stakes.
