Japan Racing Horse Association announces July catalog

The Japan Racing Horse Association has announced that 157 yearlings and 329

foals have been cataloged for its Select Sale, which will be held July 9-11 at

Northern Horse Park on the island of Hokkaido.

Last year's sale saw a world record price for a foal, when agent Nobutaka

Tada signed the ticket of ¥600,000,000 ($5,217,494) for a King Kamehameha filly

out of Japan's 2001 champion older mare To the Victory (Sunday Silence). The

highest-priced yearling in 2006 was a Pivotal colt produced by Grade 3 winner

Veil of Avalon (Thunder Gulch) who sold for 205,000,000 ($1,798,245).

Graduates of the sale included Japanese superstar and Japan's 2005 and 2006

Horse of the Year Deep Impact, Grade 1 winner Admire Moon (End Sweep) and Grade

2 hero Utopia (Jpn) (Forty Niner). Sires of yearlings cataloged this year

included Cherokee Run, Dance in the Dark, Empire Maker, Forty Niner, French

Deputy, Gone West, King Kamehameha, Kingmambo, Mr. Greeley, Symboli Kris S. and

Wild Rush. Sires with foals slated to sell include the first offspring of

Alkaased, Bago (Fr), Motivator, Oratorio (Ire), Rock Hard Ten, Roses in May and

Shamardal.

Catalogs are available online at www.jrha.or.jp/eng