Arcadia Cafe is a half-brother to two-time Group 1 winner Cafe Pharoah (pictured) and SW Luxor Cafe | Horsephotos/Tomoya Moriuchi
By Alan Carasso
In this continuing series, we take a look ahead at US-bred and/or conceived runners entered for the upcoming weekend at the tracks on the Japan Racing Association circuit, with a focus on pedigree and/or performance in the sales ring. Here are the horses of interest for this weekend running at Tokyo Racecourse:
Saturday, November 1, 2025
1st-TOK, ¥10,600,000 ($69k), Maiden, 2yo, 1600m
ARCADIA CAFE (c, 2, Into Mischief–Mary’s Follies, by More Than Ready) was bet into 9-10 favoritism for his 1400-meter debut at this oval back on June 21 and fought to the wire, dropping a neck decision to a next-out allowance winner. The $550,000 Keeneland September purchase stretches out to the one-turn mile, a trip over which his relatives have performed with considerable success. The Apr. 21 foal is the third of Mary’s Follies’s progeny to carry the colors of owner Koichi Nishikawa and is a half-brother to champion Cafe Pharoah (American Pharoah), two-time winner of the G1 February Stakes at Japanese racing headquarters and to Luxor Cafe (American Pharoah), whose black-type success came in the Listed Hyacinth Stakes going this very course and distance in February. Damian Lane, who is in town to partner with Tastiera (Jpn) (Satono Crown {Jpn}) in Sunday’s G1 Tenno Sho (Autumn), rode Arcadia Cafe on his first start and is back in the saddle on Saturday. O-Koichi Nishikawa; B-Orpendale/Chelston/Wynatt/Westerberg Ireland ULC (KY); T-Noriyuki Hori
11th-TOK, ¥41,800,000 ($271k), Handicap, 3yo/up, 1600m
ASSURBANIPAL (c, 4, Arrogate–Georgie’s Angel, by Bellamy Road), the full-brother to MGISW and 2022 GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile runner-up Cave Rock, topped the 2022 Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Yearlings Sale on a bid of $700,000 and was hammered down to Katsumi Yoshida for $1.05 million at OBS March a little more than six months later. The dark bay made an immediate impact, winning four of his first five starts–all at this track and distance–but was unplaced in three subsequent tries over further and turns back to his winning distance for the first time in 13 months here. The visiting Alexis Pouchin has the riding assignment. O-Kazumi Yoshida; B-Kathleen Schweizer (NY); T-Hiroyasu Tanaka
Sunday, November 2, 2025
12th-TOK, ¥29,450,000 ($191k), Allowance, 3yo/up, 1600m
ROSSINIANA (c, 3, Not This Time–Dos Vinos, by Twirling Candy) also races in the yellow-and-red colors of Kazumi Yoshida and has finished first or second in four of his five career appearances, including a smooth success over this course and distance June 7 and a latest runner-up effort–albeit a distant one–to the very promising Realize Camion (Jpn) (American Pharoah) in an 1800-meter allowance at Nakayama on Sept. 15. An $850,000 graduate of last year’s OBS March Sale, Rossiniana is kin to the 2-year-old colt D’code (Speightstown), who made $775,000 at this year’s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale. Leading rider Christophe Lemaire sees fit to take the call. O-Kazumi Yoshida; B-Tom Durant (KY); T-Tetsuya Kimura
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