Heading into Queen's Plate weekend I am playing catch up from last weekend when two Group 1 classics were run on two continents. In the $3 Million Takarazuka Kinen from Japan it was the grey Gold Ship winning it for the second year in a row. The top 3 finishers all bred in Japan were descendants of Northern Dancer. In the $1.7 Million Irish Derby it was Australia completing the rare double winning the Epsom and Irish Derbies. Once again the top 3 finishers all bred in Europe were descendants of our little Canadian sire.
Images - Gold Ship on top Australia on bottom from BBC and JRA
Japan's Takarazuka Kinen
1) Gold Ship (JPN) - great great great grandson x2 through Northern Taste and The Minstrel
2) Curren Mirotic (JPN) - great great great grandson x2 through Lyphard and Nijinsky
3) Verxina (JPN) - great great granddaughter through Nuryev
video of race
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlZm7vrhEPU
Irish Derby
1) Australia (GB) grandson x2 through Sadlers Wells/Galileo
2) Kingfisher (IRE) grandson x3 through Sadlers Wells/Galileo
3) Orchestra (IRE) grandson x2 through Sadlers Wells/Galileo
video of race
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAQ-X964d1k
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