A NARROW debut winner at Sapporo racecourse in late July, Soul Stirring provided Frankel with his first winner on Japanese shores from just his second runner.

She successfully kept her unbeaten record intact when she took her place in the Ivy Stakes at Tokyo racecourse on October 22nd. She ran out a decisive one and three-quarter length winner of the nine furlong contest. The Kazuo Fujisawa-trained, Christophe Lemaire-ridden filly is out of six-time Group 1 winner, Stacelita (Monsun), who was also partnered by Lemaire for three of those Group 1 victories. Stacelita was acquired by the Yoshida’s Shadai Corporation in a private deal struck in 2012.

Frankel’s only other winner in Japan from a total of three runners was another daughter, Mi Suerte, who ran out an effortless winner of a two-year-old debutante’s race and looks a very exciting prospect going forward.

Out of American Group 1 winner, Mi Sueno, she was bought by Katsumi Yoshida (Northern Farm) at Fasig Tipton’s November sale in 2013 for $1,900,000 while carrying Mi Suerte in utero.