Horse Racing

Jun Light Bolt attacked late to win the championship


Rays of Junea revelation since switching to off-road racing, got his first win at the top level with a late hit that put him first in the Champions Cup (G1) on December 4 at the Circuit horse Chukyo, overtaking the winner of the Derby (G1) of the UAE proud crown .

Jun Light Bolt, 5-year-old son of King Kamehameha ran very well for most of the 1,800-meter Cup, leaving space for rider Yukito Ishiwaka, but still needed 200-meter running space.

Crown Pride pressed for a slow pace, grabbed an early lead in the long run and looked like the winner until Ishiwaka found a spot for Jun Light Bolt. The quick winner starts in daylight and catches up to Crown Pride in the final steps to win the gap. happy3 year old baby Kizuna pony, more than a quarter of the length in third place, with the favorite and defending champion, TO Keynes Wednesday.

Jun Light Bolt, get out Special week mare Special groove, which finished at 1:51.9, well ahead of the course record thanks to an early downshift. Bred by the Northern Farm, he was trained by Yasuo Tomomichi for owner Junji Kawai.

Ishiwaka, who took his first win in 1st, said: “I tried to feel the rhythm of the horse and was confident that if we could find a gap after entering the lane, it would will rush out. “The pony reacted so well that I knew we were going to win.

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“Although I haven’t been able to enjoy the feeling of being in 1st grade for the first time, I want to enjoy it from now on.”

Jun Light Bolt made 21 grass starts, winning four, before moving on to play on dirt on July 21 in the July Betting at Fukushima Racecourse. He finished second that day and hasn’t looked back, winning BSN Sho in Niigata in August and Sirius Stakes (G3) in Chukyo on October 1 to prepare for the Cup.

Before the race, Toomichi gave a rather predictive account of how he thought the race would go, emphasizing the difference between the surfaces for his horse.

“I always think about him a lot, and in his first start on the dirt track in Fukushima, he lost a shoe, but still finished in second place,” said Toomichi. “In his two wins since then, he’s picked well between the third and fourth corners and he seems to be another horse on dirt road as opposed to grass.

“He also finished well in the home stretch,” the coach added after Jun Light Bolt pulled out gate 5 in the 16-horse field.

The victory and good performance of the three-year-olds Crown Pride and Hapi means a lot, as the Japanese racing circuit is putting more emphasis on dirt races after recent victories in Saudi Arabia, Dubai and Dubai. and the 2021 Breeders’ Cup World Championship in Del Mar. With the victory in the Champions Cup, Jun Light Bolt automatically received an invitation to compete in the Saudi Cup (G1) worth 20 million USD on March 23.

Crown Pride, following victory in the UAE Derby, was a key player in the Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve (G1), helping to establish a dizzying initial pace that helped set the final stage, winning for rich attack . Crown Pride lacked in 13th place in Louisville and have had three consecutive second-place finishes since returning to Japan.

TO Keynes was also part of Japan’s overseas effort, finishing eighth in the $20 million Saudi Cup (G1) tournament on Feb. 26. He’s exclusively run on dirt roads, winning 10 out of 19 starts.

Plans are underway to reorganize the race schedule to turn existing 3-year-old races into Japan’s “Triple Crown” to complement the “Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby” series established five years ago. year under the name Churchill Downs‘ patronage to identify a candidate for Run for the Roses.

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