Craig Williams wasn’t the only Aussie in the winner’s stall at the famous Tenno Sho meeting at Kyoto in Japan on Sunday.
Jacaranda Terrace, a Redoute’s Choice filly bred and sold in Australia, scored an impressive win in the fourth race on the card.
The $700,000 purchase from the draft of Coolmore Stud at last year’s Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale cruised home under Shinji Fujita to beat the hot favourite Hero by a length and a half.
The Kazuhide Sasada prepared filly is raced by Chizu Yoshida, the wife of Shadai Farm owner Teruya Yoshida.
Jacaranda Terrace caught the eyes of the Yoshidas who were at the time attending their first ever horse sale in Australia.
Sent to Japan, the filly immediately showed she had above average ability and on Sunday at just her second start she broke through in the ¥9,550,000 (A$111,350) event.
She led throughout in the three-year-old event over 1600 metres – a great achievement with her being the only Southern Hemisphere bred in the race and giving age to her rivals.
Jacaranda Terrace, by Arrowfield Stud’s champion sire Redoute’s Choice, is from the former outstanding racemare Unearthly.
A daughter of Zabeel, Unearthly scored her most famous win in the Group One Flight Stakes at Randwick for David Payne.
She also won a Group Two Chelmsford Stakes and was second in a Group Two Tea Rose Stakes.
Unearthly is a daughter of the stakes winning Snippets mare Snippets’ Crown and hails from the family of Australian Group One winners Innocent King, Our Planet and Ideal Planet.
Jacaranda Terrace wasn’t the only Aussie bred racing with great distinction over the weekend in Japan.
On Sunday at Niigata the classy galloper Oceania Boss (Red Ransom-Touched by God by Sunday Silence) ran a half length second in the listed Tanigawadake Stakes (1600m).
A graduate of the Strawberry Hill Stud, Oceania Boss was purchased from the 2007 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale for $250,000.
Oceania Boss, who’s won of placed in 16 of his 20 lifetime starts, has earned the equivalent of A$1,352,237.
Raced by Masaji Kitagawa’s Grand Prix Co. Ltd stable, Oceania Boss is trained by Yoshito Yahagi and was ridden on Sunday by Hayato Yoshida.