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.