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373:. Over the same course and distance on 4 July Potager was matched against older horses in the Ikuta Tokubetsu on soft ground and started the 0.4/1 favourite. Ridden by Kawada he raced in third place before taking the lead early in the straight and repelled a sustained challenge from the five-year-old Peptide Orchid to win by one and a quarter lengths. The colt then started 0.9/1 favourite the Seibunikkan Sports Hai over 2000 metres at
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Shirafuji Stakes over 2000 metres at Tokyo where he was ridden by Kawada and started the 1/1 favourite. He raced just behind the leaders as Atomic Force set the pace but lost his position approaching the final turn. He began to make good progress in the straight, gained the advantage in the last 100
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on 15 August. With Kawada again in the saddle he settled behind the leaders before taking the lead on the final turn and kept on well to win by a length and a quarter from
Blooming Sky. After a three-month break Potager returned to the track for the Kishiwada Stakes over 2000 metres at Hanshin on 14
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Majesty in the final strides and won by neck.
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Nakayama, beaten just over two lengths by the winner. In March at Chukyo he produced another respectable effort in defeat as he came home fourth behind Jack d'Or in Kinko Sho. Hayato Yoshida took the ride when Potager returned to Grade 1 class for the
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on 9 May when he was beaten a neck into second place by
Bitterender. He ran second again in June, beaten one and three quarter lengths by Al Satwa when starting odds on favourite for a minor race over 2000 metres at
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metres and prevailed in a tight finish, beating the fast-finishing Sanrei Pocket by a neck with Franz and
African Gold close behind in third and fourth. For the rest of the season, Potager was campaigned in
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he settled towards the rear of the fourteen-runner field in the early stages before moving up on the outside on the final turn and took the lead 100 metres from the finish to win by a
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Hanshin. He raced in mid-division for most of the way but failed to make any progress in the straight and came home eleventh of the seventeen runners behind
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Hanshin on 3 April and started a 58/1 outsider in a sixteen-runner field. Efforia started favourite while the other contenders included
192:. In his first two seasons he showed promise by winning four minor races but was not tested in the highest class. As a four-year-old in 2021 he won the
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beaten a head and one and a half lengths by the first two. Three weeks later the colt was stepped up to Grade 1 class for the autumn edition of the
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and started at odds of 22.3/1. He tracked the leaders for most of the way before being outpaced in the closing stages and finished sixth behind
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Potager began his fourth season on 23 January when he finished fifth to King of Koji in the Grade 2
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He was from the tenth crop of foals sired by Deep Impact, who was the
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236:. He was sent into training with Yasuo Tomomichi.
212:Potager is a dark bay horse with a faint white
713:"Sales Results Select Sale: Yearlings, Lot 52"
243:in 2005 and 2006, winning races including the
196:Shirafuji Stakes and was place three times in
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491:Pedigree of Potager (JPN), bay colt, 2017
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259:. Deep Impact's other progeny include
185:foaled 4 February 2017) is a Japanese
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224:. In July 2018 he was entered in the
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16:Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse
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731:"Deep Impact β Stud Record"
356:2020: three-year-old season
340:on 29 September. Ridden by
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766:"Wild Agnes - Family 16-d"
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768:. Thoroughbred Bloodlines
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33:Potager in June 2022
658:More Revenue (USA)
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338:Nakayama Racecourse
315:winner Rouge Buck.
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880:"Kinko Sho result"
868:. 31 October 2021.
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699:"Potager pedigree"
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480:Titleholder
401:Daring Tact
342:Yuga Kawada
334:firm ground
309:Attica Meli
261:Gentildonna
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179:(Japanese:
155:205,200,000
43:Deep Impact
934:Categories
772:2013-10-13
682:References
621:Mint Copy
461:Lei Papale
405:Glory Vase
297:Honeylight
216:and white
208:Background
160:Major wins
585:Highclere
457:Osaka Hai
428:Tenno Sho
397:Kinko Sho
265:Harp Star
257:Japan Cup
249:Tenno Sho
230:Yearlings
202:Osaka Hai
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465:Akai Ito
301:Crepello
277:Snowfall
228:Sale of
149:Earnings
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177:Potager
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