With his countrymen cutting a swathe through stakes races all around him, poor old A Shin Rook (JPN) must have felt as if he was letting the side down in his adopted homeland - before putting things right in Saturday’s Listed City Of Adelaide Stakes (1400m) at Morphettville.
Cox Plate heroine Lys Gracieux put any doubt about her stamina to bed when she put the best in Japan to the sword before over 90,000 fans in the 64th running of the world’s biggest betting race Group 1 Arima Kinen (2500m) at Nakayama Racecourse on Sunday.
