The Chiba Thoroughbred Horse Sale for 2-year-olds in training—has been running online for the past three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic—returned to Funabashi Racecourse on May 12 5, where a pony of Lord Kanaloa consignment was Shadai Farm’s Hip 45 that topped the session after selling to Shorai Hayashida for 110,000,000 yen ($810,271, 1 = $0.0074).
The foal took the lead in eighth place with a score of: 12 3/5 in the lower part of the track, passing Funabashi’s dirt track in the morning sale. Before the sale, he walked a quarter mile into:21 and changed during a private show at Shadai Ranch on April 20.
Bred in Japan by Shadai, he is the sixth pony among the level 3 winners Dubai Destination mare Dance destination who won the Italian 1000 Guineas (G3) in 2013 and finished second in the Italian Oaks (G2) later that year. The mare also created the Italian stake winner cross dancer who made it to Premio Dormello 2017 (G3).
Trading activity was very active at Funabashi on Friday as 55 Lots from 58 lots offered for sale were sold for a total value of 1,308.7 million yen ($9.64 million), up 61.1% from 2022. and is the second highest selling record. The median was 23,794,545 yen ($175,273) and up 69.9% from last year, while the median was 20,000,000 yen ($147,322)—up 127.3% from 2022.
