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Second stakes winner for Maurice

Shigeru Pink Ruby snares Grade 2 victory at Hanshin

MAURICE.
MAURICE. Picture: Arrowfield.

Former Arrowfield Stud shuttler Maurice (Screen Hero) chalked up his second stakes winner on Sunday as his daughter Shigeru Pink Ruby (3 f ex Moonlight Bay by High Chaparral) made a successful three-year-old debut in the Hochi Hai Fillies' Revue (Gr 2, 1400m) at Hanshin. 

Having made a winning debut in November, the filly was thrown into the deep end for her second start when she lined up in the Hanshin Juvenile Fillies (Gr 1, 1600m) and only managed to beat one rival home, finishing 17th of 18 runners. 

On Sunday, Shigeru Pink Ruby let down impressively up the straight, emerging from the pack to post a neck victory over Yoka Yoka (Squirtle Squirt), while Minnie Isle - who is by another former Arrowfield Stud shuttler in Mikki Isle (Deep Impact) was another length away in third. 

The filly was purchased for ¥28,000,000 ($368,053) at the 2019 HBA July Select Yearling Sale and she is out of the unraced High Chaparral (Sadler’s Wells) mare Moonlight Bay. 

Moonlight Bay herself is a daughter of 2005 International Stakes (Gr 3, 1m) winner Moonlight Dance (Sinndar), whose eight winners are headed by Listed-scoring pair Moonlit Lake (Deep Impact) and Hygge (Heart’s Cry). 

Moonlight Dance is a half-sister to dual Group 1 winner Grey Swallow (Daylami) and stakes-placed Style For Life (Law Society) - the dam of Group 1 winner Night Style (Night Shift) and stakes winner Maid Of Dawkins (Kendor). 

This is also the family of Sky Punch (Alamosa), who won at Listed level in Australia.

Maurice’s total winner count stands at 49 and Shigeru Pink Ruby joins Grade 3 winner Pixie Knight as the stallion’s other stakes winner. 

The Shadai Stallion Station-based Maurice stood at Arrowfield Stud for three seasons, but due to coronavirus the son of Screen Hero (Grass Wonder) did not return to the Hunter Valley stud last season. 

The stallion has four lots catalogued at the upcoming Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, which gets underway in Sydney on April 6.


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Hanshin Sunday, 14th March 2021

6f211y TURF FIRM
JPY ¥100,840,000

THE HOCHI HAI FILLIES' REVUE (G2)

JPY ¥100,840,000
Age: 3yo Sex: F Type: OPEN
6f211y TURF FIRM
FP Silk Horse, Age & Sex
Sire & Dam
Jockey
Trainer
SP
WT
1st 5. SHIGERU PINK RUBY (JPN) 3yo F
MAURICE (JPN) - MOONLIGHT BAY (JPN)
R WADA
KUNIHIKO WATANABE
$13.9
54kg
Keiko Morinaka
2nd 8. YOKA YOKA (JPN) 3yo F
SQUIRTLE SQUIRT (USA) - HONEY DANCER (JPN)
H MIYUKI
K TANI
$4.9
54kg
Koji Oka
3rd 13. MINNIE ISLE (JPN) 3yo F
MIKKI ISLE (JPN) - ISLAND FASHION (USA)
KOUTA FUJIOKA
KOSHIRO TAKE
$23.4
54kg
Tsuyoshi Ono
4th 4. UMBRELLA DATE (JPN) 3yo F
EISHIN FLASH (JPN) - DAIWA SCARLET (JPN)
K IKEZOE
H FUJIWARA
$11.3
54kg
5th 3. EL CASTILLO (JPN) 3yo F
LORD KANALOA (JPN) - EL MIRADOR (JPN)
Y IWATA
TAKASHI SAITO
$7.5
54kg
6th 6. COUP DE COEUR (JPN) 3yo F
A SHIN HIKARI (JPN) - BULLY BONES (USA)
ARATA SAITO
Y TAKAHASHI
$65.2
54kg
7th 18. STYX (JPN) 3yo F
LORD KANALOA (JPN) - PENTHESILEA (JPN)
HAYATO YOSHIDA
KOSHIRO TAKE
$16.4
54kg
8th 2. TERRINE (JPN) 3yo F
DANON SHARK (JPN) - PISA NO GRACE (JPN)
AKATSUKI TOMITA
KODAI HASEGAWA
$67.8
54kg
9th 16. OPAL MOON (JPN) 3yo F
VICTOIRE PISA (JPN) - COPANO MARCOLINI (JPN)
N YOKOYAMA
M KON
$3.9
54kg
10th 9. LOVE KELLY (JPN) 3yo F
CURREN BLACK HILL (JPN) - DAME DU LAC (JPN)
FUMA MATSUWAKA
DAISUKE TAKAYANAGI
$13
54kg
11th 15. A SHIN HITEN (JPN) 3yo F
A SHIN HIKARI (JPN) - EISHIN SUN VALLEY (JPN)
TAISEI DANNO
KUNIHIKO WATANABE
$10.5
54kg
12th 1. GOLD CHALICE (JPN) 3yo F
TO THE WORLD (JPN) - SILVER CHALICE (IRE)
S HAMANAKA
KOSHIRO TAKE
$29.6
54kg
13th 10. VIRTUALITY (JPN) 3yo F
MAKFI (GB) - SHONAN TALENT (JPN)
DAISAKU MATSUDA
Y SHONO
$88.5
54kg
14th 11. LA LA CHRISTINE (JPN) 3yo F
MIKKI ISLE (JPN) - SUPER MADAME (JPN)
YUJI NAKAI
TAKASHI SAITO
$12.1
54kg
15th 12. BLUE BIRD (JPN) 3yo F
REACH THE CROWN (JPN) - A SHIN VETERINARY (USA)
DAICHI SHIBATA
Y TAKAHASHI
$79.4
54kg
16th 14. RASTRILLO (JPN) 3yo F
AGNES DIGITAL (USA) - COSMO MAXWELL (JPN)
KANICHIRO FUJII
TOSHIHIRO EBINA
$247.2
54kg
17th 17. FREED (IRE) 3yo F
NO NAY NEVER (USA) - ARCTIC FREEDOM (USA)
YUSAKU KOKUBUN
M NISHIZONO
$198.1
54kg
18th 7. PAUL NEYRON (JPN) 3yo F
ORFEVRE (JPN) - ENGLAND ROSE (GB)
Y FUJIOKA
Y YAHAGI
$22.1
54kg

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