SATONO Crown is another colt to have featured in a previous Breeding Insights column and he made it a weekend to remember for Japanese runners when he denied Highland Reel in the Group 1 Longines Hong Kong Vase. Earlier this year he won the Group 2 Kyoto Kinen.

A Group 3 winner as a juvenile on the second of his two starts that year, he added the Group 2 Hochi Hai Yayoi Sho at three and was third in the Japanese Derby last year.