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Recent Japanese results have highlighted a number of Australian & NZ breeding connections, reported racenet.com.au:

• Arrowfield veteran Snippets notched a winner when 3YO gelding Setono Snipper (ex Aspirant by Native Aspen) scored over 1200m at Kokura. Setono Snipper is a three-quarter brother to AJC Breeders’ Plate winner High Rolling (by Snippets), now a member of the stallion roster at Riverdene Stud at Wagga Wagga.

• Fellow Arrowfield stallion Dehere sired a double: Green Billboard (ex Mims Return by Woodman), winner of the Oze Tokubetsu over 1200m at Fukushima; & 5YO Water League (ex Solo by Halo) won the Amakusa Tokubetsu over 1700m at Kokura.

• Chatswood Stud’s stallion Genuine (a son of Sunday Silence) recorded a winner when his 3YO filly Jo Long Run (ex Jo Charmant by Hector Protector) cruised home by 3 lengths at Hakodate.

• Rich Hill Stud’s Pentire had offspring Kaori Noble (ex Kaori Roman by Noble Roman) win over 1700m at Hakodate.

• Widden Stud’s 2-season shuttler Jade Robbery (a son of Mr Prospector) scored with 6YO Excessive Word (ex The Last Word by Northern Taste) who took the prestigious Marine Stakes (1700m) at Hakodate.

• Fairy King’s champion son & Arc de Triomphe winner Helissio (who returns to Widden this season) had 3YO filly Ostiense (ex Ostia Antica by A.P.Indy) win over 1800 at Kokura.

• In the Senkakuwan Tokubetsu over 1800m at Niigata last weekend, Keiai Grade (a son of ill-fated former NZ shuttle stallion Honor Grades) defeated Langfuhr’s colt Gourmet Japan & Fuji Kiseki’s mare Shonan Birkin.

• Darley Stud big gun Elusive Quality had an impressive 2YO winner at Hakodate when Star Nakayama (out of multiple stakes winner Remarkably Easy, by Regal Remark) blitzed the field by 6 lengths over 1000m.

• And Darley stallion Carnegie’s colt Slow Ballade (ex Narita Wakakusa by Symboli Rudolf) took out the Mutsuwan Tokubetsu over 2000m.

• The very next race Darley stablemate Bubble Gum Fellow’s full brother Win Schneid won the Listed Tomoe Sho (1800) by a 1 1/2-length from Tiger Café (a stakes-winning son of Sunday Silence out of Australian-bred stakes-winning mare Seto Flowerian, & a brother to the colt that topped the recent JRHA foal sale).

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