“I’VE trained for 15 years and I’ve been on the Curragh for 25 years and I have thought about giving up a few times, but every year I say one more year. Maybe after this I will train for another year,” said Takashi Kodama.

“He’s owned by my main client and the mare is in foal to Highland Reel (Galileo) and she will ship to Japan in a few weeks. I’ll see how the horse is in a few days and talk to the owner and rider about where he might go.”

The subject of these comments was Japanese-based Takaya Shimakawa’s homebred Tosen Wish, yet another winner for Ballylinch Stud’s New Bay (Dubawi) and the twelfth juvenile winner of the year for the sire, matching his total of juvenile winners in his first crop which hit the track last year.

That first crop yielded the recent Group 1 Sun Chariot Stakes winner Saffron Beach, while the current juvenile crop had two group winners, the best being Bayside Boy who won the Group 2 Champagne Stakes and was third in the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes.

Tosen Wish is the second foal of his dam Wishing Time (Frankel). The first is unnamed and this spring she foaled a full-brother to Tosen Wish. This is a young family, with plenty still to happen, and it traces back well.

Wishing Time is the first foal out of Beyond Desire (Invincible Spirit), a Group 3 winner and runner-up in the Group 2 Lowther Stakes. That mare’s second offspring is the listed winner Queen Of Desire (Dubawi), and this year that mare had her first foal, a filly by Churchill (Galileo). It is perhaps noteworthy that the Coolmore sire was chosen as Queen Of Desire has a two-year-old half-brother, Jackmeister Rudi, by the same sire, while younger siblings are a yearling filly by Expert Eye (Acclamation) and a colt foal by Zoustar (Norther Meteor).

Beyond Desire’s grandam was the stakes-placed Keswa (Kings Lake) and she was a half-sister to Starlight Dreams (Black Tie Affair), the dam of champion European juvenile, four-time Group 1 winner and multiple Group 1 sire Mastercraftsman (Danehill Dancer). Another sibling of that pair was Rafif (Riverman), and she bred the German and Italian Group 1 winner Pressing (Soviet Star).