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Beautiful Gift is the dam of the debuting Churchill Deuce | Fasig-Tipton
By Alan Carasso
In this continuing series, Alan Carasso takes 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 coming Monday running at Kyoto Racecourse:
Monday, January 12, 2026
4th-KYO, ¥12,330,000 ($78k), Newcomers, 3yo, 1800m
CHURCHILL DEUCE (JPN) (c, 3, Into Mischief–Beautiful Gift, by Medaglia d’Oro) carries the Kieffers Co. Ltd (Do Deuce) silks and is out of the 2021 GIII Santa Ysabel Stakes winner and GII Santa Anita Oaks runner-up who was purchased by Katsumi Yoshida for $2 million with this colt in utero at the 2022 Fasig-Tipton November Sale. A Feb. 22 foal, Churchill Deuce changed hands for the equivalent of $1.13 million at the 2023 JRHA Select Sale. Beautiful Gift is a half-sister to GSW & GISP Chitu (Henny Hughes). O-Kieffers Co Ltd; B-Shunsuke Yoshida; T-Mikio Matsunaga
AMERICAN STYLE (c, 3, Gun Runner–Medina Thunder, by Thunder Gulch) cost Yoshizawa Stable $400,000 at Keeneland September in 2024 and is a half-brother to SW & GSP Lights of Medina (Eskendereya)–the dam of Grade III winner Pioneer of Medina (Pioneerof the Nile)–and the dual stakes-placed Releasethethunder (More Than Ready). Lights of Medina’s 4-year-old daughter June Eos (Constitution), also a $400,000 KEESEP grad, is a two-time winner in Japan. Christophe Lemaire has been enticed to ride. O-Yoshizawa Stable Co Ltd; B-International Equities Holding Inc (KY); T-Hideaki Fujiwara
LORD VERITAS (JPN) (c, 3, Essential Quality–Bodhicitta {GB}, by Showcasing {GB}) is the first foal from his dam, a winner of the GII Yellow Ribbon Handicap and twice placed in the GI Gamely Stakes before selling to K I Farm for $450,000 at the 2022 Fasig-Tipton February Sale. The Feb. 14 produce is the first Japanese starter for Essential Quality, who hails from the same female family as champion Japanese freshman sire and Triple Crown winner Contrail (Jpn). O-Lord Horse Co Ltd; B-K I Farm; T-Yasuo Tomomichi
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