Wonders of Japan Almond eyes gave birth to her first pony, a pony of the tall bull of the Shadai Stallion farm Epiphaneia, Almond Eye’s breeder, Northern Racing, announced on January 13 on Twitter.
Welcome boy! 😍🥰 # almondeye # epiphania pic.twitter.com/kFJpKWkefJ
– Lemaire Christophe (@christo68914587) January 13, 2022
Daughter of Lord Kanaloa and the group’s Sunday Silence Award winning mare Fuasaichi Pandora won 10 races for coach Sakae Kunieda in an amazing racing career, including 9 at the highest level.
Among the big race wins at Almond Eye’s CV are DP World sponsored Dubai Turf (G1), two Japan Cup (G1) scores, Yushun Himba-Japanese Oaks (G1), Oka Sho-Japanese One Thousand Guineas (G1) ), and Victoria Mile (G1). She is the highest rated mare in the world in 2020, with 124 points.
Now 7 years old, she’s retired from farming after her second success at the Japan Cup in 2020, in which she beat Japan’s hero Triple Crown that year Opposite. Almond Eye has captured 11 out of 15 starts and banked a substantial $17,608,586 in lifetime earnings.
Epiphaneia, a son who won the first grade of Symboli Kris WILL , is the son of the top class Bold Tact, 2020 Japan’s Triple Tiara heroine as well as 24 other equity performers to date, including the newly crowned 2021 Japan Horse of the Year Efforia and last month’s Hanshin Juvenile Fillies (G1) captor Life cycle.
Epiphaneia will stand strong during the upcoming breeding season for a fee of JPY 18,000,000 ($156,400).
