The Suzuka Mambo mare registered her first NAR-G1 title in the 2014 JBC Ladies’ Classic and was fourth in last year’s Champions Cup.

This win marked trainer Katsuhiko Sumii’s 22nd JRA-G1 victory following last year’s Japan Cup title with Epiphaneia and his third victory in this race including his wins in the previous Japan Cup Dirt in 2005 and 2008 with Kane Hekili. Jockey Mirco Demuro registered his 13th JRA-G1 title following his win in the Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) with Duramente. Six-year-old Sambista broke smoothly from stall four and hugged the rails in 6-7th behind pacesetter Copano Rickey.

As the field turned for home and just when the race seemed to develop into a duel between the first two favorites—Copano Rickey and Hokko Tarumae who was closing in on the frontrunner—the Suzuka Mambo mare who angled out and accelerated persistently under Mirco Demuro’s urgings, pinned the leaders 200 meters out and fended off the strong challenges of Nonkono Yume and Sound True before the wire for her second G1 win. Third favorite Nonkono Yume made a clean start from the innermost stall and eased back towards the rear. Entering the homestretch second from last, the three-year-old Twining colt continued to hug the rails while delivering an impressive turn of speed to close in on the winner to 1-1/2 lengths at the wire.

Fifth choice Sound True, also breaking well, settled in the very rear and stalked Nonkono Yume until the last corner, after which the five-year-old chestnut was steered out and produced an explosive late kick from the outside that marked the fastest three furlongs in the field though finishing a neck short of the runner-up. Odds-on-favorite Copano Rickey rushed out and rallied strongly with Kurino Star O and Gun Pit to take the lead but tired from his early efforts in the last 200 meters to finish seventh. Quick out of the gate, Gun Pit raced prominently three wide to about third corner, was squeezed at the head of the stretch and faded. Gun Pit’s trainer Caspar Fownes commented: “He got a bad squeeze at the stretch…he just sat him in the last three furlongs…the track had been so leader-biased all day so he had to ride him forward. We tried to give him the run but he was three wide the whole trip. He nearly got into a good spot but set to work at both ends.” Gun Pit’s jockey Zachary Purton said: “I was following number thirteen (Hokko Tarumae) into the straight but he was dead before then. He just seemed to struggle with the surface.”

Jockey: Mirco Demuro “I’m really happy to have won this race. I rode her for the first time a few days ago on a regular exercise canter and gate test, and I felt that she was an honest mare. I wasn’t given any specific instruction on how to ride the race on this mare, but studying her past performances, I did have some visions on how I would try to ride this race although I knew, knowing that everybody was giving their best to win this race, that it would not be easy. The inside barrier number four certainly helped and she loaded smoothly, and after Mr. Sumii told me that a female runner had never fared better than fourth in a dirt G1, I really wanted to improve on that… it really made me want to win it. We had a good start and was in a good position with Nihonpiro Ours and Copano Rickey in front of us. We had a little fright as our path was narrowed in both the third corner and going into the straight but she really stretched well in the home straight and she was terrific. I thought that maybe our move was a little early when we overtook the two top G1 winners at mid-stretch and while a lot of horses started to tire, I was just urging her to stay…I really wanted to win, and she responded. It’s been a really good year for me… I’ve won the Satsuki Sho (Japanese 2000 Guineas), the Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) and although I’ve had my share of losses in the Tenno Sho (Autumn) and the Japan Cup, I was able to win another big race this time in the Champions Cup.”

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DOMENICA 6 DICEMBRE 2015 Giappone: Mirco #Demuro e #Sambista colpo nella Champions Cup (ex Japan Cup Dirt) a Chukyo!

 

Partenza, attesa allo steccato e spunto decisivo. Tutto questo è stata la Champions Cup G1 (ex Japan Cup Dirt) da Chukyo (1800 metri in dirt, con ¥ 196,320,000 circa $ 1,636,000) che ha laureato per la prima volta nella storia la femmina Sambista (Suzuka Mambo) nelle cui vele soffia anche il vento del campione italiano Misil, padre della mamma White Carnival. La cavalla di Katsuhiko Sumii per la K. Hidaka Breeders Union, ha risolto con uno scatto dall’ingresso in retta battendo di una lunghezza e mezza Nonkono Yume (Twining), con a bordo Christophe-Patrice Lemaire, ed al terzo Sound True (French Deputy). Si tratta dell’ennesima soddisfazione nella terra del Sol Levante per Mirco Demuro, che da qualche mese ha superato la soglia delle 100 vittorie in pattern ed ha avuto modo di aggiungere anche questa perla alla collana con un sigillo in sabbia, in G1, ancora in Giappone. Sambista, che era a 65/1, ha fatto tutta la carriera correndo sulla sabbia giapponese, lo scorso anno era arrivata quarta del campione Hokko Tarumae, mentre nel 2015 ha fatto il colpaccio. 

 

Sambista in passato è stata montata anche da Dario Vargiu (Marzo 2014, a Kawasaki, in G2 per femmine dove era arrivata terza) mentre in coppia con Cristian Demuro aveva vinto nel Gennaio scorso a Ohi le Tck Jo-O Hai G3 per sole femmine, da favorita. Nel 2015 ha vinto 4 corse, per lei questa affermazione era la sesta a livello di Pattern. Mirco Demuro, alla 107° vittoria stagionale, ha rilasciato le seguenti dichiarazioni: ”Sono veramente felice di aver vinto questa corsa, sta andando tutto alla grande. L’ho montata solo pochi giorni fa in lavoro e c’è stato subito feeling. Non è una cavalla difficile, e non ho avuto particolari istruzioni per montarla. Ho studiato le vecchie prestazioni ed ho deciso che il miglior modo di montarla fosse quello con la quale l’ho interpretata. Il numero basso di steccato l’ha certamente aiutata, è rimasta rilassata durante il percorso e poi ha dato tutto in dirittura. Sto coronando un anno favoloso, ho vinto il Satsuki Sho (Japanese 2000 Guineas), il Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) ed ora questa. Sono felice“.

 

Sambista Stuns in Japan’s Champions Cup

• By Myra Lewyn, December 6, 2015 

 

Sambista became the first female winner of the US$1,636,000 Champions Cup (Jpn-I), run as the Japan Cup Dirt until 2013, when pulling a 66-1 upset Dec. 6 at Chukyo Racecourse.

 

Fourth to Hokko Tarumae in last year’s edition of the race, the 6-year-old Suzuka Mambo mare, sixth on the rail in the early running, angled out into the stretch and accelerated powerfully to overtake pacesetter Copano Rickey and champion dirt horse Hokko Tarumae 200 meters out. From there, she was all out to hold back strong closing bids fromNonkono Yume and Sound Tune for a 1 1/2-length triumph.

 

Japan Dirt Derby victor Nonkono Yume, toward the back of the field early, bested Sound Tune, coming from the tail end in the full field of 16, by a neck for second. 

 

Ridden by Italian Mirco Demuro, Sambista was timed in 1:50.04 for 1,800 meters (about 1 1/8 miles) on a fast track. The victory was her fourth from nine starts this season and first at the highest level as a convincing winner in one of only two group I races contested on dirt in Japan.

 

Trainer Katsuhiko Sumii added a third win in the race, following previous victories in the Japan Cup Dirt in 2005 and 2008 with Kane Hekili. Demuro registered his 13th Japan Racing Association-hosted group I victory following his win in the Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) with Duramente this spring.

 

Odds-on-favorite Copano Rickey sprinted out to set the pace but tired from his early efforts to finish seventh. Hokko Tarumae came home fifth in trying for a repeat in the race.

 

The trainer trains Sambista for owner K. Hidaka Breeders Union. The 12th choice in the Champions Cup, she earned a sixth overall stakes win while taking her career line to 11-4-6 from 28 starts.

 

Grand Stud bred Sambista from Japanese grade III winner White Carnival, by Misil.

 

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