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One of the most promising young stallions in Australia had a stakes double in Japan on the weekend. Arrowfield Stud’s magnificent son of Sunday Silence, Fuji Kiseki, achieved the feat with the four-year-old mares Gun and Rose and Tenshi No Kiseki. 


FUJI KISEKI 
Gun and Rose (ex Lufira) won the Tochio Tokubetsu, a 1200m race on the grass at Niigata. Set alight from the start she was never under any pressure and drew clear by comfortable 1-½ lengths and set a new track record time of 1:07.5. A day later, Tenshi No Kiseki (ex Be Bop a Lu) took her record to 6 wins from 11 starts when she stormed home to win the Kokura Nikkei Open also over 1200m on the turf. 

Fuji Kiseki’s oldest Australian progeny are three year olds and look set for a big spring this year. The unbeaten stakes winner Flashed (ex Bright Light) is due to resume in the William Crockett Stakes LR at Moonee Valley on the 17th of August, while Fuji Kiseki’s other Australian stakes winner Fuji Dancer (ex Dancer’s Glory) is due to resume a week later along with It’s Who Deanie (ex Deanie) in the Quezette Stakes LR at Caulfield. Promising Zembu (ex Wanice), Lana Belle (ex Jadeva Belle), Dark Topaze (ex Speedy Topaze) and the unraced And Shintaro (ex Elevate), are all set to start shortly with stakes campaigns in mind. 

“He has proven extremely popular with breeders here in Australia with a full book of 120 mares for this season. He has a lot to offer given that he has proven that he can get a top class horse and they seem to cope with the training conditions found here. Also his stud record shows that he loves the major strains of Northern Dancer and Mr Prospector so he suits a big proportion of the broodmare population,” said Arrowfield’s Byron Rogers. 

By: Mark Smith

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